EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2019 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Weather Watch Chaos in toll plazas over FASTag rollout Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Several booths hit by congestion; many vehicles had RFID stickers with insufficient balance Special Correspondent “I rarely use the highway. I Kempeogwda International New Delhi don’t think I need to get it. If Airport (KIA), five booths Confusion reigned supreme at all I use, I’m willing to pay have been converted to FAS­ Bomb hoax at Salman’s house, U.P. boy booked at toll plazas after the go­ the double amount,” said Tag lanes and cash was ac­ MUMBAI vernment issued an order ex­ Mohammed Ashar, a local cepted in three lanes. There A 16-year-old boy from tending the deadline for FAS­ trader here. was a long pile­up of traffic, Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh Tags to become mandatory But people in general especially cabs operated to has been booked for by 30 days and requiring were happy about the conve­ KIA. allegedly sending a hoax 25% of lanes at toll plazas to nience offered by FASTag. “I The lack of supply of FAS­ email to Mumbai police, be kept open for cash find it simple and conve­ Tags near the toll plaza also claiming that a bomb was set transactions. nient. It saves your time in caused a lot of inconve­ to go off at actor Salman NHAI officials say they saw queue. It saves you from nience to the passengers. Pe­ Khan’s residence in Bandra, a 5% jump in FASTag transac­ searching around in the ople were asked to visit again the police said on Sunday. A tions on Sunday, from when pocket for small cash when on Monday. non-cognisable offence has FASTags were to become being stopped at the plaza. Seventeen toll plazas been registered against the compulsory until the govern­ And above all, it is a definite across Telangana switched minor. He was produced in ment provided relief to com­ step towards digitisation,” to the FASTag mode in the Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) juvenile court, which let him muters in a last­minute order said Arun Kumar, a trainer in early hours of Sunday. While Forecast for Monday: Dense fog in some pockets with very dense off, police said. issued on Saturday due to a Obstacle course: Toll personnel diverting vehicles to the human resources who shut­ it was a smooth and hassle­ fog in isolated pockets very likely over Punjab and west Ra- ‘Mandatory to link shortage of RFID stickers in FASTag lane in Bengaluru on Sunday. * SUDHAKARA JAIN tles between Coimbatore free passage for FASTag vehi­ jasthan and dense fog in isolated pockets over Bihar, east Ra- PAN-Aadhaar by Dec. 31’ the market. and Kochi frequently. cles, non­tag vehicles had to jasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, south Assam, NEW DELHI In Chennai, there was traf­ they had bought cards online ing supervised by its nodal At Bengaluru’s Sadahalli enter the single lane for cash Meghalaya, Manipur and Mizoram in the morning hours. city rain max min city rain max min It is mandatory to link your fic congestion at toll plazas but these were yet to be deli­ officer as well as being moni­ toll plaza, the employees collection, leading to consid­ Agartala................—....27.5....13.8 Kozhikode................. 7.0....33.8....24.0 PAN with Aadhaar by the end as cash lanes saw long vered to them. According to tored at regional & head­ were seen announcing erable delay in travel. Ahmedabad...........—....26.5....13.7 Kurnool .......................—....32.3....20.7 of this year, the Income Tax queues. NHAI officials, only 37% of quarter level Control and through microphones and As the number of non­ Aizawl...................—....21.4......8.8 Lucknow......................—....22.9....14.2 Department said in a public Traffic in FASTag lanes vehicles using toll plazas had Command centres. directing vehicles with FAS­ FASTag vehicle entering the Allahabad..............—....20.8....15.4 Madurai.................... 3.5....26.8....22.2 Bengaluru .............—....25.5....17.6 Mangaluru ...................—....38.2....23.7 message on Sunday. “Building was not seamless either, as FASTags. At a toll plaza at Walayar Tag to use the reserved lanes toll plazas increased, NHAI Bhopal ..................—....22.8....14.4 Mumbai .......................—....31.3....18.0 a better tomorrow! To reap many road users had insuffi­ This is despite NHAI de­ in Palakkad, truckers instead and diverting other vehicles authorities opened addition­ Bhubaneswar.........—....29.8....18.2 Mysuru ........................—........ —....18.6 seamless benefits of income cient balance in their RFID ploying marshals to manage of car owners were seen to to the cash ones. al hybrid lanes to ensure free Chandigarh ...........—....18.5......9.6 New Delhi ...................—....19.2......9.6 tax services, complete the Chennai ............. 4.4....26.6....22.5 Patna ..........................—....22.6....14.8 stickers. Many motorists said traffic and each toll plaza be­ be using FASTags more. At the toll plaza towards flow of traffic. Coimbatore ........ 2.0....24.6....20.2 Port Blair.....................—....30.4....25.6 vital link before 31st Dehradun..............—....18.9......9.8 Puducherry ............... 1.4....29.6....20.8 December, 2019,” it said. It is Gangtok............. 4.0....12.4......5.5 Pune............................—....31.0....16.6 mandatory to link your PAN Goa.......................—....33.6....22.5 Raipur .........................—....29.2....18.8 Guwahati ..............—....27.2....14.8 Ranchi.................... 16.0....22.0....15.6 with Aadhaar, according to Intoxication not a defence Hubballi................—....29.0....19.0 Shillong.......................—....18.9....10.1 the public message issued a Officials sceptical of making 45 Hyderabad ............—....30.0....19.2 Shimla.........................—......7.3......0.9 fortnight before the deadline Imphal ..................—....22.3......5.5 Srinagar.......................—......5.8......0.5 Jaipur ...................—....19.6......9.4 Thiruvananthapuram.... 12.8....32.8....23.4 ends. PTI to a criminal charge: SC Kochi ............... 42.0....31.6....23.2 Tiruchi.................... 28.0....26.7....21.6 Kohima .................—....24.4......6.5 Vijayawada ..................—....30.5....22.2 20,000 litres of Vande Bharat rakes in 2 years Kolkata .................—....27.9....18.5 Visakhapatnam .............—....29.5....22.5 synthetic milk seized ‘It is at the most a mitigating factor’ (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) BHOPAL Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday Police have seized 20,000 ‘Will take two years to roll out the prototype for operation’ Legal Correspondent “The evidence of drun­ CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE litres of synthetic milk on its NEW DELHI kenness which renders the Ahmedabad..... 33 .17 06 ....92 ...98 ....* In observation made at 6.00 way to the State-run plant in S. Vijay Kumar the project to ICF... but mak­ The Supreme Court has re­ accused incapable of form­ Bengaluru ....... 05 .17 45 ..... — ...94 ....* Chennai .......... 14 .40 51 ....97 .....— ....* p.m., Howrah, West Bengal Bhopal and arrested three CHENNAI recorded an overall air ing 45 rakes would not be jected a man’s defence that ing the specific intent essen­ Delhi .............. 13 .39 65 ..310 .198 ....* persons, an officer said on quality index (AQI) score of The Railway Ministry clear­ possible in the next two he was too drunk to intend tial to constitute the crime Hyderabad ...... 03 .64 34 ..107 .....— ....* 274 indicating a moderate Sunday. The synthetic milk Kolkata........... 08 .78 32 ..277 .194 ....* level of pollution. In ing the decks for the Integral years since the design speci­ to kill his wife. should be taken into ac­ * contrast, Eloor, Kerala was seized when it was being Lucknow......... 23 .06 41 ..196 .....— .... recorded a healthy AQI score Coach Factory (ICF) here to fications have been changed. In a judgment by a Bench count with the other facts * mixed in a milk tanker on Mumbai .......... 09 .26 48 ....97 ...91 .... of 26 continue making Vande Bha­ In the event of Rail Coach of Justices Ashok Bhushan proved to determine wheth­ Pune............... 85 .18 91 ..132 .101 ....* Saturday night. “The genuine Visakhapatnam 09 .34 44 ....48 ...60 ....* milk was brought in the rat Express trains is seen as a Factory, Kapurthala, and and M.R. Shah on Friday, er or not he had the inten­ Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) tanker from collection welcome move though se­ Modern Coach Factory, Rae­ the court said intoxication tion,” Justice Shah wrote in SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, centres of Sanchi, the brand nior officials are sceptical of bareli, joining