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"$% !& ( $ * (% he Supreme Court on TThursday restrained the Orissa High Court Bar Association and other con- dultery is no longer a nected associations from going Acrime in India, the ther relevant for deciding the suits on strike and asked the strik- Supreme Court ruled on nor relevant for deciding these ing lawyers to resume the court Thursday as it struck down the appeals,” said Justice Ashok work so that no impediment is colonial-era law, dubbing it Bhushan, who read out the judg- caused in the right of access to “archaic” and “unconstitu- ment for himself and the CJI. tional” and saying it treated The Muslim parties see the SC went viral on social media, women as a “chattel” and clarification that made in the 1994 DGP RP Sharma held talks denuded them of their “sexu- case were not relevant for deciding aking seriously the alleged with his Tripura counterpart. al autonomy”. However, the SC the suits as a positive takeaway from Tharassment of Odia stu- Subsequently, the local SP vis- said adultery should continue the verdict even as the RSS and the dents by locals at the Rashtriya ited the students and assured to be treated as civil wrong and BJP have said that the court’s ruling Sanskrit Sansthan in Tripura’s them security and help. can be grounds for seeking he Supreme Court on Thursday paved has removed a big hurdle in early capital Agartala, the Odisha Odisha Higher Education justice of any litigant. This divorce. Tthe way for taking up the politically sen- disposal of the Ram temple case. Government on Thursday Secretary Bishnupada Sethi order from the apex court A five-judge constitution sitive Ayodhya title suit without further delay Reacting to the verdict, Khaliq deputed a two-member team to said, “We are going to ensure came when a three-member Bench headed by Chief Justice by declining to refer to a Constitution Bench Ahmad Khan, the nominee of investigate the matter. security if those students are Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra unanimously its 1994 judgment which held a “mosque is !" # $ Maulana Mahfuzur Rahman — Higher Education unsafe there. Dipak Misra was adjudicating struck down Section 497 of the not an essential part of the practice of Islam”. % P ( one of the litigants in the title suit, Department Director B Police have also been a writ petition filed by a New Indian Penal Code (IPC) The apex court said now the civil suit on land )( said, “During the hearing on the title Parmeswaran and Shree deployed and there is no prob- Delhi-based journalist Abhijit dealing with offence of dispute will be heard by a newly-constitut- suit in the Supreme Court, the other Jagannath Sanskrit University lem with the security of the stu- Iyer Mitra, who has been adultery and Section 198 of the ed three-judge Bench from October 29 as a larger Bench. side always quoted the 1994 judgment that Vice-Chancellor Prof Radha dents. Our high-level team booked by the Odisha police CrPC which deals with Chief Justice Dipak Misra will retire on Justice Ashok Bhushan and SA Najeer mosque is not an integral part of Islam. Now Madhab Dash left for Agartala would try to sort out the prob- recently for his disparaging prosecution of offences against October 2. The Muslim parties now have the were other members of the Bench. Justice the court has made it clear that the 1994 to sort out the matter. lem there.” comments over the famous marriage. option of filing review petition. Nazeer dissented with the majority view and judgment was related to the land acquisi- After a video of torture Continued on page 4 Konark temple. Contd P4 With this verdict, India The court’s ruling has come as a big said the question whether mosque was an tion... joined a list of countries, boost for the protagonists of the Ram tem- essential part of the religion cannot be decid- And that it has no connection with the including China, Japan, Brazil, ple as also to the BJP, which hopes that the ed without a “detailed examination of the title suit. We have achieved our goal as the Australia, Germany and construction of the temple at Ayodhya before beliefs, tenets and practice of the faith” and Supreme Court will hear only the title suit.” +( ( , - . / " France, which have done away the next year’s general election could con- favoured reconsideration of the issue to a Iqbaal Ansari, another litigant from the with criminalising adultery. siderably brighten its electoral prospects. larger Bench. The majority ruling said the Sunni Central Waqf Board, welcomed the The CJI, who wrote the However, Muslim parties also welcomed the observation about Islam and mosque in the verdict and said, “The Supreme Court has lead judgment for himself and judgment in view of the certain clarifications celebrated Ismail Farooqi case was made in made it clear that the case will be heard on he KIIT Deemed University on behalf of Justice AM made by the court about the applicability of the limited context of “land acquisition” dur- merits, on the base of the claims of land own- Thas made an impressive Khanwilkar, held that “a hus- the 1993 judgment in the present case. ing the hearing of the Ayodhya case and ership... And not on religious beliefs as the debut in The Times Higher band is not the master” and A three-judge Bench, headed by Chief made it clear it was not relevant for decid- high court has done.” Education World University any system treating a woman Justice Dipak Misra, by a majority of 2:1 ing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid He said they were “fighting the case for Rankings 2019. The rankings, with indignity, inequity and declined the plea of M Siddiq, one of the title dispute. “We again make it clear that Babri land on the basis of revenue records”. regarded as one of the most old as an institution for profes- place in this coveted and much- inequality or discrimination original litigants of the Ayodhya case who questionable observations made in Ismail “Our claim is that there are no historical facts prestigious, were published on sional education since 1997 awaited ranking, securing an “invites the wrath of the is no more and is being represented through Faruqui’s case were made in context of land that any temple was demolished and Babri Wednesday (September 26). and 14 years old as a universi- impressive position of 1001+. Constitution”. his legal heir, that the matter be referred to acquisition. Those observations were nei- Masjid was built there,” he added. The KIIT is just over 20 years ty since 2004. But it has got a Continued on page 4 ( )* +,- +./, QR Q Development Authority (BDA O ! ), the joint eviction team of n an eviction drive on BDA, Bhubaneswar Municipal IThursday near Gate No. 1 of Corporation (BMC), General ; Kalinga Stadium, along the Administration Department Behera Sahi Road, 31 illegal and Commissionerate Police he much-awaited ‘Ghata structures were demolished. demolished the unauthorised TParibartan’ (soul transfer) " The eviction was carried encroachments from `Gauda report of the inquiry conduct- # out to provide a clean look to Basti’ near Behera Sahi, ed into alleged irregularities in the entire Kalinga Stadium Nayapalli. transfer of Ghatas (souls) to has sought more information complex, where the World Cup During the eviction drive new idols during the on the temple in a letter to him. Hockey would start from 21 asbestos/tin covered hous- Nabakalebar Yatra 2015 would He said the Amicus Curiae has November 28 and end on es, five tin covered shops, three day after the BJP benefits of the BSKY among income and residential loca- have been provided free health not be made public. stood by the hereditary right of December 16. Under the super- thatched houses and two Aannounced to hold a week- people in the first phase. The tions would get fee treatments services under the BSKY dur- The report was presented servitors and has asked them to vision of Additional thatched cow sheds were long State-wide campaign from Rath would go to the remain- at all hospitals from health sub- ing the last month since August before the Jagannath Temple write undertakings for timely Commissioner Bhubaneswar demolished. September 30 in support of the ing 20 districts in the next centres to District 15,” said Jena. Managing Committee that met conduct of rituals. They would Central Government’s phase. Headquarters Hospitals. As Among others, Health and under chairmanship Gajapati also not be allowed to chew Ayushman Bharat healthcare “All information regard- many as 70 lakh economically Family Welfare Secretary Dr Dibyasingha Deb here on Gutkha or tobacco inside the programme, Chief Minister ing the Biju Swasthya Kalyan weak families would get health Pramod Kumar Meherda, Thursday. Committee mem- temple. The SJTA would fix Naveen Patnaik flagged off a Yojana will be disseminated security upto Rs 5 lakh and, in NHM Direcor Shalini Pandit bers unanimously decided not rates of different cooked dish- ‘Prachar Rath’ (campaign char- though the Rath. Besides, case of women, the cover is and State Medical Corporation to make the report public as it es in the Nrusingha Mandira iot) here to make people know members of folk art associa- upto Rs 7 lakh. MD Archana Patnaik were is the top secret matter of the on a sample basis. Later, prices about the State Government- tions of district, block and city All families selected for present. Shree Jagannath Temple.