follow us: friday, january 10, 2020 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 26 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Foreign envoys in J&K JNU students beaten up during march Ministry rules out V­C’s removal after talks with delegation of students, teachers Shinjini Ghosh Chancellor, have been called on a fact­finding visit NEW DELHI at the Ministry on Friday over Several students of Jawahar­ students’ claims that the re­ They met politicians, editors and elected grassroots leaders lal Nehru University (JNU) vised fees as decided during Brutally thrashed, says were beaten up on Thursday HRD intervention are not be­ actor Deepak Kabir Peerzada Ashiq by Delhi police personnel as ing implemented. LUCKNOW Srinagar they tried to march towards Towards evening, JNU Stu­ Theatre actor and cultural A 15­member foreign en­ Rashtrapati Bhavan after “un­ dents’ Union president Aishe activist Deepak Kabir on voys’ delegation arrived in satisfactory” talks with offi­ Ghosh addressed those gath­ Thursday alleged that the police not only brutally Srinagar on a two­day visit cials of the Human Resource ered outside Shastri Bhawan thrashed and abused him in to Jammu and Kashmir and Development (HRD) Ministry. and termed the MHRD meet­ custody but also labelled him met over 100 people, includ­ At least four students re­ ing “unsatisfactory” and an “urban Naxal”. Mr. Kabir, ing senior Valley­based polit­ ceived injuries when police called for a march to Rashtra­ 44, was released from jail icians, top newspaper edi­ used “mild force” to disperse Students being detained during a protest march towards pati Bhavan. Students and after a court granted him bail tors and grassroots the march. Around 11 stu­ Rashrapati Bhavan on Thursday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA protesters started moving but in a case of violence during a representatives. dents were also detained but were stopped by the police. protest against Citizenship They were seeking feed­ later released. Teachers' Association de­ as important as resolving the In the melee, several protes­ (Amendment) Act in Lucknow back on the ground situation Scores of people, since late manding the removal of Vice issues that have come up,” ters were beaten up by the on December 19. post the revocation of the Ground study: Foreign envoys arriving at the Srinagar airport afternoon, had assembled Chancellor M. Jagadesh Ku­ said Mr. Khare. police and taken away in pol­ NEWS Ī PAGE 13 State’s special status, Pakis­ on Thursday on a two­day visit. * ANI outside the HRD Ministry as a mar. The Ministry ruled out Ministry officials, howev­ ice vehicles. A male student DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD tan’s attempts at interfe­ protest march starting from Mr. Kumar's removal. “Re­ er, asserted that the “formu­ suffered head injuries during Teenager in hit-and-run rence and the immediate de­ SC verdict on Mandi House culminated moving the VC is not the solu­ la” decided during consulta­ baton charge. to be tried as ‘child’: SC mands of the people. Why ban us, there. HRD Secretary Amit tion. The basic issue on tions with students and (With inputs from Sau- NEW DELHI Unlike the controversial curbs today Khare met a delegation of which the whole problem has administration needs to be rabh Trivedi and agencies) A loophole in juvenile law will tour of the European Union asks Congress nine representatives from arisen needs to be addressed implemented. The university see a teenager who allegedly (EU) parliamentarians in Oc­ The Supreme Court will on Congress leader Jairam JNU Students' Union and JNU first. Changing X, Y or Z is not officials, including the Vice SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 2 drove his father’s luxury car tober last year, these envoys, Friday pronounce its Ramesh accused the Centre over a 32­year­old man in including U.S. Ambassador verdict on the legality of of adopting double Delhi being tried as a child to India Kenneth I. Juster the restrictions on the standards by taking rather than an adult who and the Norwegian Ambas­ fundamental freedom of Ambassadors on a “guided T.N., Kerala hunt for Centre withdraws CRPF committed a heinous crime. A sador, drove past busy movement and the political tour” of Jammu Supreme Court Bench streets from the airport to shutdown of communic­ and Kashmir, while barring observed that an offence reach Lalit Grand Palace Ho­ ations in Jammu and Indian politicians from the suspected Islamic ultras cover for Stalin, OPS which does not provide a tel. The venue is close to the Kashmir since August 5, minimum sentence of seven Union Territory. He sought sub­jail where National Con­ following the withdrawal years cannot be treated as a “unfettered access” for all Duo killed an SSI in Kanniyakumari ‘State govt. can provide them security’ ference (NC) vice­president of Article 370. Ī page 12 Ī page 12 heinous offence. politicians. Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Omar Abdullah has been de­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Stalin was given NATION Ī PAGE 9 KANNIYAKUMARI New Delhi <> DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD tained since August 5. The Z-category security envoys did not meet him. vocation of Article 370 and African and Asian nations, Preliminary investigations The Ministry of Home Affairs cover and No shutdown was ob­ wanted to know if Pakistan held a closed­door interac­ into the gunning down of (MHA) has withdrawn the se­ Panneerselvam served nor was any violence was making attempts to in­ tion with a group of promi­ special sub­inspector of pol­ curity cover of DMK presi­ Y-category reported, unlike during the terfere, delegates at the nent politicians led by Altaf ice Wilson, 57, at Padanthaa­ dent M.K Stalin and Tamil EU parliamentarians’ visit. meetings told The Hindu. Bukhari, fast emerging as lumoodu checkpost in Kan­ Nadu Deputy Chief Minister personnel involved, Y­cate­ During their interactions There was a common de­ the face of a non­NC, non­ niyakumari district on O. Panneerselvam, a senior gory protection entails de­ with politicians, local edi­ mand for restoration of In­ Peoples Democratic Party Wednesday night, point to M. Thoufique (left) and government official said on ployment of 11­12 personnel. tors and elected grassroots ternet services, they added. (PDP) third front. the involvement of suspect­ Abdul Shameem Thursday. The official said that the leaders, the envoys posed The foreign envoys, main­ ed Islamic extremists. Mr. Stalin had Z­category State government could pro­ FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 4 PAGES pointed questions on the re­ ly from South American, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 With the help of CCTV im­ December 2019. He went un­ security cover and Mr. Pan­ vide protection to the two ages, the police identified derground thereafter. neerselvam had Y­category leaders. the assailants as A. Abdul Tamil Nadu Director Gen­ proximate security cover, In July last year, around Shameem of Thiruvithaan­ eral of Police J.K. Tripathy provided by the Central Re­ 1,300 security personnel code and M. Thoufique of and ADGP, Law and Order, serve Police Force (CRPF). were freed of VIP security SC rebuffs plea to implement CAA Malik Dinar Nagar in Kottar, K. Jayanth Murali, who ar­ The official said that the duty after the MHA reviewed Kanniyakumari. rived in Kerala on Thursday, CRPF was tasked with pro­ security cover of 350 indivi­ Police sources said Sha­ had an hour­long meeting viding proximate and mobile duals, including politicians. Court must independently review the law for elements of unconstitutionality: CJI meem was involved in the with Kerala police chief Lok­ security cover to both the Recently, the Centre with­ murder of Hindu Munnani nath Behera and ADGP, Law leaders only in Tamil Nadu, drew the Special Protection Krishnadas Rajagopal and fundamental value of activist Suresh Kumar in and Order, Sheikh Darvesh which now stood with­ Group cover of Congress NEW DELHI secularism by discriminating Chennai in June 2014. He Saheb. drawn. While Z­category is leaders Sonia, Rahul and Pri­ Chief Justice of India (CJI) in the grant of citizenship on was arrested with some oth­ the second highest form of yanka Gandhi and replaced Sharad A. Bobde said the the basis of religion. ers but released on bail in CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 security cover, with 20­22 it with Z­plus cover of CRPF. country was already going The CJI remained non­ through difficult times and committal when the lawyer an endeavour should be sought an urgent hearing of made to maintain peace. his petition favouring the The CJI made the oral CAA. Ms. Dhanda asked the Nirbhaya case: two convicts file curative pleas comments while hearing a court to direct the Election petition seeking an “aggres­ peace. Such petitions don’t view the law for elements of Commission to take “strict Vinay, Mukesh in their pleas claimed ‘sea change in death penalty jurisprudence’ sive” implementation of the help,” Chief Justice Bobde unconstitutionality in it. action” against political par­ Citizenship (Amendment) told the lawyer for Mumbai­ “How can we just declare ties “spreading false ru­ Legal Correspondent petitions, said there had tution Bench of the Supreme open for convicts in the Su­ Act (CAA), which fast­tracks based Puneet Kaur Dhanda. it [CAA] constitutional? mours and violence in the NEW DELHI been a sea change in the Court in its judgment in the preme Court. benefits of citizenship to ille­ Ms. Dhanda’s petition There is anyway a presump­ country”. The petition also Curative petitions were filed death penalty jurispru­ Rupa Ashok Hurra case in Sharma was the first of gal immigrants from Pakis­ wanted the court to declare tion of constitutionality.