c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I TUESDAY I 17 DECEMBER 2019 WEATHER Max: 28.9OC WORLD 12 SPORTS 15 TABLOID Min: 19.4OC | | RH: 48% Rainfall: Nil Hong Kong still in Lara calls Kohli Akki’s hypocrisy Forecast: Partly cloudy sky. dilemma: China Ronaldo of cricket stands exposed Misty/haze likely. Max/Min temp. 29/19ºC deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 347 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | `6.00 Police brutality draws India’s ire ‘Expelled BJP MLA a rapist’ Students at 22 varsities protest against Jamia action Court convicts Kuldeep BHASKAR HARI SHARMA | DC MAMATA DARES Sengar in Unnao rape case NEW DELHI, DEC. 16 PM: SACK ME DC CORRESPONDENT she was sexually assault- A nation shocked by the NEW DELHI, DEC. 16 ed. She was under threat, violence against protest- worried. She is a village ing students at Jamia OVER CAA-NRC A Delhi court convicted girl, not from a cosmopoli- Millia Islami (JMI) uni- expelled BJP MLA Kuld- tan educated area... Sengar versity stood to protest RAJIB CHOWDHURI | DC eep Singh Sengar on Mon- was a powerful person. So with best means possible, KOLKATA, DEC. 16 day for raping a woman at she took her time..,” the led by students of at least Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, in judge said, reading out the 22 varsities across India, West Bengal Chief Mini- 2017, saying the victim’s verdict. joined by the opposition ster Mamata Banerjee on testimony was “truthful The court noted that after parties, civil society, Monday dared the and unblemished” against the victim wrote a letter to legal bodies, and the gen- Central government to a “powerful person”. Soon UP Chief Minister Yogi eral public on Monday. dismiss her government after his conviction, Adityanath, several crimi- The nation-wide prot- for opposing the imple- Sengar broke down in the nal cases were filed ests were led by the brave mentation of the courtroom, and was seen against her family and the students of Jamia Millia, Citizenship Amendment crying beside his sister. “imprint of Sengar” were and joined by professors Act (CAA) and National The court convicted visible in them. and parents, a day after Register of Citizens (NRC) Sengar for rape under the The court voiced sur- facing police brutality. in the state. She made it IPC and the Pocso Act for prise over the CBI’s delay Scores of students, inclu- clear that even out of the offence of a public ser- in filing the chargesheet in ded women students, power she would not vant committing penetra- the rape case and said that once again took to the allow the CAA and NRC tive sexual assault against it prolonged the trial streets outside the Unive- to be effective at any cost. a child. The court will hear against Sengar and the rsity, braving a freezing Demanding the rollback arguments on quantum of others. cold, to protest the police of the CAA and NRC, the sentence on Wednesday. Referring to the Pocso action against their fel- Trinamul Congress supr- The offences entail a maxi- Act, which had come into low students. Local resi- emo led a protest rally mum punishment of life force to impart expeditious dents and guardians also from B.R. Ambedkar imprisonment. justice involving children came out in support of Statue on Red Road to District judge Dharmesh as victims of sexual assa- protesting students. Jorasanko on Chittara- Sharma, however, acquit- ult, the court said there Protests were reported njan Avenue. ted co-accused Shashi was “nothing wrong” with from students of universi- She declared that if the Singh of all charges. the law but its ineffective ties, besides those in Central government con- Convicting Sengar, 53, implementation on the Delhi, from Chandigarh, tinued to implement the under the Protection of ground and the lack of Lucknow, Patna, Guwa- CAA and NRC in West Children from Sexual human approach of offi- hati, Kolkotta, Aligarh, Bengal, it would have to Offences (Pocso) Act, the cers led to a situation Varanasi, Mumbai, do so over her “dead court said the CBI proved where justice was delayed. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, body”. the victim was a minor. “I West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leads a rally of thousands of partymen, vowing not to allow the proposed Chennai and Pudicherry. found her statement truth- ■ Page 7: CBI didn’t follow Several Delhi Univer- country-wide National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act in the state, in Kolkata on Monday. — PTI ■ Full report on Page 8 ful and unblemished that probe manual: Judge sity students boycotted exams and held protests outside the Arts Faculty in North Campus to express solidarity with Urdu varsity students shut Jamia students, even as a large number of police personnel were deployed by authorities to prevent gates to stop police entry any flare up. Carrying a tricolour, students clap- ATHER MOIN | DC It was in the backdrop of ped and raised slogans HYDERABAD, DEC. 16 a weeklong agitation agai- HCU STUDENTS against the central gov- nst the Citizenship Amend- ernment and Delhi police Worried about a possible ment Act. Students on SLEEPLESS OVER during the protests. Some police action, students pro- Sunday night mailed the students live-streamed testing the police brutality administration that they their protest through Tw- at the Jamia Millia Islamia would boycott exams, JAMIA VIDEO itter, Facebook and other and Aligarh Muslim Unive- scheduled from Monday, as social media platforms. rsity shut the gates of a mark of protest. They KANIZA GARARI | DC As many as 50 detained Maulana Azad National then locked the gates. They HYDERABAD, DEC. 16 Jamia students were University (Manuu) to pro- besieged the main gate, released even as the situa- fessors and staff on raising slogans against the Midnight protests were tion in the campus Monday morning. Delhi police and UP Police, held at Hyderabad Central remained tense, with From midnight, there demanding suspension of University (HCU) on scores of hostel students was major upheaval in the erring personnel. A namaz Sunday night against the leaving for home. After campus as news spread of was prepared for rumour- Delhi police’s fierce attack days of protest against police action against stu- ed deaths which turned out on students at Delhi’s the Act, the University dents in the North. to be false and tempers Jamia Millia Islamia had on Saturday Students feared a similar cooled. After professors University. As videos of announced vacation till police invasion, given the counseled the students, police brutality spread, January 5 and cancelled excuse of a pending case they allowed the staff to students became restless all exams. between two student union enter the campus at noon. and gathered in the cam- groups from a scuffle dur- pus demanding action. ■ Page 8: Jamia V-CC seeks ing the Azad Day celebra- ■ Page 2: Manuu exams probe into police action tions. deferred to Thursday ■ Full report on Page 2 PAGE 8 | DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY MUST STOP, SAYS SUPREME COURT HAJIPUR RAPE VICTIMS’ FAMILIES KTR CM, KCR super CM S.N.C.N. ACHARYULU | DC be constituted when KCR’s cuss any policy before it MEET GOVERNOR HYDERABAD, DEC. 16 son, Mr K.T. Rama Rao, goes to the state govern- takes over as CM, and KCR ment for a decision. As its DC CORRESPONDENT Telangana Rashtra Samiti will chair it. chair, KCR would have a HYDERABAD, DEC. 16 (TRS) president and Chief Sources close to the CM firm grip on the state Minister K. Chandrasekhar said that the proposed administration, and he can The families of the three Rao is considering consti- Advisory Council will summon any minister or girls who were raped and tuting a “Telangana State have, along with the chair- official on any issue that he murdered at Hajipur earl- Advisory Council”, along man and the new CM, sev- would wish to discuss. ier 2019 met Governor the lines of the National eral ministers, state plan- Needless to say, the Adviso- Tamilisai Soundararajan Advisory Council that ning board deputy chair- ry Council would be a pow- and sought her help to Sonia Gandhi had consti- man B. Vinod Kumar, chief erful body. Once KTR speed up the case. tuted as the UPA chairper- advisor Rajeev Sharman, becomes the CM, his father son during Dr Manmohan and possibly some others. is likely to operate from his ■ Full report on Page 6 Singh’s premiership. It will This council would dis- farmhouse in Erravelli. SORRY | STATE ■ Experts say officials flout Manual Scavenging Act No end to manual scavenging RAJESWARI PARASA | DC survey and list equipment measures and just a ‘chad- or indirectly, a manual sca- HYDERABAD, DEC. 16 available for mechanisa- di’ and a ‘rope’, risking venger, and every person so tion and what is needed to their lives. The concerned engaged or employed shall Mechanised scavenging is ensure worker safety in the civic body bears the respon- stand discharged immedi- limited mostly to urban pursuit of mechanisation. sibility to prevent manual ately from any obligation, areas, whereas it remains In many municipalities, scavenging at individual express or implied to do manual in rural areas, and manual scavengers are level, private contractor manual scavenging.” nobody is noticing, said given a bottle of whisky and level or municipality level. Whoever scavenges manu- Union ministry of social a small amount of money to Manual scavenging is pro- ally is also liable for pun- justice and empowerment do manual scavenging hibited. According to the ishment, namely imprison- officials at a workshop in instead of providing them Manual Scavenging Act, ment and a fine.