c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I FRIDAY I 13 DECEMBER 2019 WEATHER deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 343 Established 1938 | 40 PAGES | `6.00 Max: 28.5OC Min: 17OC RH: 46% Rainfall: Nil Assam burns, 2 Forecast: Cloudy sky. Misty morning. Max/Min temp. 28/17ºC die in cop firing ASTROGUIDE Houses of AGP and BJP MLAs attacked Vikari: Dakshinayana Tithi: Margasira Bahula Padyami till 9.54 am BY MANOJ ANAND | DC Star: Arudra till 5.49 am GUWAHATI, DEC. 12 (Saturday) Two people were shot Varjyam: 2.31 pm to 4.05 pm dead in police firing as Durmuhurtam: 8.53 am to 9.36 Assam, the hotbed of anti- am and 12.32 pm to 1.16 pm CAB protests, plunged Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 noon into chaos on Thursday HIJRI CALENDAR with thousands of agita- Rabi-ul-Aker 15,1441 AH tors descending on streets PRAYERS defying curfew, thumbing their nose at Army con- Fajar: 5.32 am tingents staging flag Zohar: 12.20 pm marches. Protesters block a road by burning tyres during an agitation Asar: 4.07 pm Protesters attacked the against the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill in Assam on Maghrib: 5.49 pm office of Bangladesh High Thursday. Several flights and trains were cancelled Isha: 7.02 pm Commission in Guwahati SUNSET TODAY 5.43 PM and targeted the homes of additional companies of paramilitary and state SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.38 AM AGP and BJP legislators paramilitary forces who police personnel present in their respective con- will be joining duty from in every nook and corner. MOONRISE TOMORROW 6.26 AM stituencies, security sour- Friday. As protesters attacked MOONSET TODAY 7.26 PM ces said, adding that the Despite Prime Minister government and other lone AGP Rajya Sabha Narendra Modi’s assur- properties, police opened member, Birendra Pd ance to safeguard the fire in which at least two Baishya, was also political, linguistic, cul- protesters were killed and COUNTER POINT attacked. tural and land rights of three others grievously Protesters were angry Assamese, thousands of injuried in Guwahati. as Mr Baishya had voted protesters took to the in favour of the streets defying curfew in ■ Page 8: Cops transferred Citizenship (Amendment) Guwahati, which has Bill in Parliament. turned into a garrison ■ Page 14: Football, cricket Centre has rushed 20 town with the Army, matches called off SC DISMISSES ALL B’desh ministers REVIEW PLEAS IN cancel India visit AYODHYA CASE PARMOD KUMAR | DC NEW DELHI, DEC. 12 VINEETA PANDEY | DC NEW DELHI, DEC. 12 In a single in-chamber hearing on Thursday, a In what is being seen as a five-judge constitution direct international fall- bench of the Supreme out of the passage of the Court rejected all the 18 Actor Gollapudi Citizenship Amendment I HAD TO cancel petitions seeking recon- Bill (CAB), Bangladesh’s my trip to New sideration of its November passes away foreign minister A K Delhi as I have to 9 judgment that granted Abdul Momen and home participate in the the 2.77 acres of disputed Hyderabad: The sudden minister Asaduzzaman 'Buddijibi Debosh' and land in Ayodhya to Ram demise of multi-talented Khan Kamal have can- Lalla Virajman, the child and versatile actor celled their scheduled 'Bijoy Debosh' and deity, for the construction Gollapudi Maruti Rao has official visits to India. more so as our State of a Lord Rama temple. shocked the people of the Momen was to be in Minister is out of the Some of the petitions port city, with intellectuals, New Delhi from Dec. 12- country in Madrid and pointed to “illegalities and academics and senior citi- 14 to attend the 6th our Foreign Secretary inaccuracies” and had zens recollect- Indian Ocean Dialogue is in the Hague contended that the Nov. 9 ing their experi- and the 11th Delhi judgment was “contrary to ences with him. Dialogue scheduled to — Abdul Momen, law”, “self-contradictory” Gollapudi begin on Dec. 13, while Bangladesh Foreign and “violative of the com- Maruti Rao the home minister was to minister plete justice that was enjoyed a good be in India from Dec. 13- invoked”. rapport with 15 and was scheduled to Mr Khan’s visit is being Some petitioners had several people travel to Meghalaya and put down to law and contended that giving in Visak-hapat- Shillong to attend an order situation in ownership of the disputed nam. He lived in Chennai, event on the War of Northeast, it is learnt site at Ayodhya to the idol but often visited the city. Liberation of 1971. that both the visits have of Ram Lalla for the con- While Bangladeshi been cancelled by Dhaka struction of a temple not ■ More reports on P6 & diplomats maintain that to express its unhappi- only amounted to condon- Hyderabad Chronicle Momen’s visit has been ness with Delhi for por- ing illegal acts of Hindu cancelled as the Delhi traying the country in parties, but awarding event was coinciding poor light. them. with two national events, 62.6% turnout in and the cancellation of ■ Page 8: ‘Not right time’ ■ Page 7: ‘No merit in pleas’ Jharkhand polls Ranchi: Over 62 per cent voter turnout was recorded SC appoints 3-member on Thursday at the end of third-phase elections, in which 17 assembly seats of Jharkhand went to polls, panel to probe encounter officials said. Amid tight security, 62.60 per cent of 56,18,267 voters PARMOD KUMAR | DC sion are former judge of S.A. Bobde and Justices exercised their franchise in NEW DELHI, DEC. 12 the Bombay High Court Abdul Nazeer and the 17 seats across eight Justice Rekha Sundar Sanjeev Khanna barred districts, they said. The Supreme Court on Baldota and former CBI the High Court and the Police said the polling, Thursday appointed a director D.R. National Human Rights which began at 7 am, three-member commis- Commission from initiat- passed off peacefully. sion headed by a former SHOOTOUT AT ing or proceeding with While polling at Ranchi, judge of the top court, any probe already initiat- Hatia, Kanke, Barkatha and Justice V S Sirpurkar, to SHAMSHABAD ed into the encounter. Ramgarh seats ended at 5 inquire into the However, the court said pm, voting in rest of the encounter killing of four Kaarthikeyan. Directing that the investigation by constituencies ended at 3 suspected accused in the the inquiry commission SIT set up by the state pm, Election Commission rape and murder of a vet- to submit its report with- government can go on. officials said. PTI erinarian in Hyderabad. in six months from the Others on the three- date of its first sitting, a ■ Page 4: CJI Bobde for member inquiry commis- bench of Chief Justice impartial probe CRASH | COURSE ■ Court slams state over Biodiversity flyover closure HC pulls up cops in Milan case VUJJINI VAMSHIDHARA | for altering sections of the DC CAR FLIES OVER law under which it was HYDERABAD, DEC. 12 NOVEMBER 23: Milan prosecuting the accused, from 304-A (causing death Questioning the govern- Rao's car flew from by negligence) 337 and 279 ment’s decision to close the Biodiversity junction fly- IPC to Section 304 Part II Biodiversity flyover for the over, 1 killed & 3 injured (culpable homicide) and last 19 days, after a car fell POLICE CLAIM: Rao was Section 308 (attempt to com- off the flyover and killed driving at 104-105.8 km mit homicide). Citing the kmph one woman and injured speed 40 Actual Speed SC judgments in Jayaraj vs three others, the High Court allowed State of TN, and two other on Thursday asked if this RAO'S CLAIM: Was dri- judgments, the court asked was confirmation of the ving at 50-60 km speed, DECEMBER 9: HC directs the Srikanth Reddy, counsel fact that the design of the blamed the design of the Cyberabad police not to appearing for the state, flyover was faulty. flyover arrest Rao for a week where was the intention of While dealing with the the accused in this case to petition of Kalvakuntla the women by his negligent flyover. He said that he had kill or injure somebody. Krishna Milan Rao, who driving, Justice T. Vinod noticed that the flyover was has been held responsible Kumar asked the govern- closed even on Dec.11. The ■ Page 4: ‘How many cases of for the death and injury of ment what made it close the judge pulled up the police culpable homicide booked’ c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I FRIDAY I 13 DECEMBER 2019 WEATHER deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 343 Established 1938 | 40 PAGES | `6.00 Max: 28.5OC Min: 17OC RH: 46% Rainfall: Nil Assam burns, 2 Forecast: Cloudy sky. Misty morning. Max/Min temp. 28/17ºC die in cop firing ASTROGUIDE Houses of AGP and BJP MLAs attacked Vikari: Dakshinayana Tithi: Margasira Bahula Padyami till 9.54 am BY MANOJ ANAND | DC Star: Arudra till 5.49 am GUWAHATI, DEC. 12 (Saturday) Two people were shot Varjyam: 2.31 pm to 4.05 pm dead in police firing as Durmuhurtam: 8.53 am to 9.36 Assam, the hotbed of anti- am and 12.32 pm to 1.16 pm CAB protests, plunged Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 noon into chaos on Thursday HIJRI CALENDAR with thousands of agita- Rabi-ul-Aker 15,1441 AH tors descending on streets PRAYERS defying curfew, thumbing their nose at Army con- Fajar: 5.32 am tingents staging flag Zohar: 12.20 pm marches.