WWW.YUGMARG.COM FOLLOW US ON REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95 Tuesday, February 18, 2020 CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXV, NO. 23, PAGES 12, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER Ayushmann Pre budget consulta- State Planning Board K.L. Rahul maintains Khurrana tion meeting a historic approves Rs. 7900 2nd spot in T20s pens heartfelt step: Manohar Lal; crore annual plan rankings; Morgan, note after Addresses ministers, for year 2020-21; CM Shamsi among winning Filmfare MLAs at session presides over meet- Top 10 for 'Article 15' ing of board PAGE 3 PAGE 5 PAGE 12 PAGE 10 Centre directed to grant permanent commission to women officers in army AGENCY Centre showed scant regard in imple- bench said. NEW DELHI, FEB 17 menting the directive in past one decade. The bench said it is of the opinion It said engagement of women offi- that physiological features of women The Supreme Court on Monday directed cers in the Army has been an evolution- has no effect in granting permanent the Centre to grant permanent commis- ary process and the Union of India commission and they have to be given sion to all women officers in the Army should have acted in accordance with equal opportunity at par with their male within three months, terming the Cen- the Delhi High Court judgment when counterparts in the armed forces. Naxals set ablaze 7 tre's argument of physiological limita- there was no stay on it. The top court said even after 70 tions and social norms for denying them "There is no reason and justification years of post-colonial era, there is a need vehicles used for command posts "disturbing". for the union of India not to act as per for change in mindset with regard to giv- A bench headed by Justice D Y the Delhi High Court verdict. On Sep- ing equal opportunity to women officers constructing road in Chandrachud said there will not be any tember 2, 2011, the Supreme Court has in the Indian Army. absolute bar on giving them command clarified this aspect and said there is no It said the Centre's submission of Chhattisgarh postings. stay on the high court verdict. Despite physiological limitation is based on SURGUJA: Naxals on Monday It said women officers in the past of the government to put an end to gen- ing no stay on the 2010 Delhi High that scant regard has been paid to the flawed notion and there is no constitu- set ablaze seven vehicles used have brought laurels to the country and der bias in armed forces. Court verdict allowing grant of perma- verdict of Delhi High Court and the or- tional basis to deny them equal opportu- for the construction of a road change of mindset is required on the part The top court said despite there be- nent commission to women officers, the der of Supreme Court as well," the nity. near Bandarchua camp under Samri police station limits here, police said. Surguja range Inspector Gen- eral RL Dangi said, "Naxals set ablaze seven vehicles that SC appoints interlocutors were being used for the con- struction of a road near Ban- darchua camp under Samri po- lice station limits, at Jharkhand- to convince Shaheen Chhattisgarh border. Nirbhaya convicts to be Rajiv Bansal takes charge as Bagh protesters Air India CMD AGENCY NEW DELHI, FEB 17 MUMBAI: Senior IAS officer Rajiv Bansal on Monday took hanged on March 3rd charge as the Chairman and The Supreme Court on Monday ap- Managing Director of disinvest- pointed senior lawyers Sanjay ment-bound Air India. Hegde, Sadhna Ramachandran and This is the second time Bansal AGENCY The Delhi High Court on former chief information commis- has taken over the reins of the NEW DELHI, FEB 17 Hope this time convicts are February 5 granted a week's time sioner Wajahat Habibullah to go and national carrier. He had served to the four convicts to avail of all talk to protesters at Shaheen Bagh as the CMD for little over three A Delhi Court on Monday gave hanged, says mother legal remedies available to them area to convince them to hold the ag- months in 2017. March 3 as the fresh date for exe- NEW DELHI: After a Delhi court on Monday and said that the convicts cannot itation at an alternative site. He replaces Ashwani Lohani, cution of all four convicts in the issued fresh warrants against all the four con- be hanged separately since they The apex court has fixed the who completed his one-year 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and victs in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, the were convicted for the same matter for further hearing on Febru- tenure last week. murder case. victim's mother Asha Devi said that she was crime. ary 24. In a release on Monday, Air In- Patiala House Court in its or- not very happy as this is the third time the A Delhi Court had issued a During the hearing, Justice KM Sanjay Kishan Kaul and also com- dia said Bansal has taken der said that the sentence would death warrants have been issued. death warrant against the four Joseph observed, "Right to protest is prising Justice KM Joseph issued no- charge as the CMD. be executed at 6 am on March 3. "I am not very happy as this is the third time convicts -- Vinay Sharma, Ak- a fundamental right, across the coun- tices to the Centre, the Delhi govern- A 1988-batch IAS officer of the Special Public Prosecutor Ra- that the death warrants have been issued. shay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and tries." "We have expressed our opin- ment and the police over the protest. Nagaland cadre, he was the jiv Mohan apprised the court We have struggled so much. I hope they (the Mukesh Singh -- on January 7 ion and we are hopeful of a solution, The court was hearing two petitions Additional Secretary in the Min- about the current status of the convicts) are hanged on March 3," Asha Devi and they were scheduled to be ex- if nothing is done, we will leave it to seeking clearance of Shaheen Bagh, istry of Petroleum and Natural case and also stated that three out told the reporters here. ecuted on January 22 at Tihar Jail. the concerned authorities," he said. Kalindi Kunj road where the protest Gas prior to this posting. Earlier in the day, the Patiala House Court is- In August 2017, Bansal was Air of four convicts have already ex- Later, the execution was suspend- Advocate Deo Sudhi, appearing for is going for nearly two months. Dur- hausted their legal remedies. sued fresh death warrants against the four convicts -- Vinay Sharma, Ak- ed indefinitely by a Delhi court. one of the petitioners Nand Kishor ing the hearing, Justice Kaul ex- India's interim CMD for little shay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh Singh -- ordering their execution over three months. And as of date, there is no pe- The case pertains to the gang- Garg said that the protesters have not pressed discontent on the ongoing tition pending in any court, Mo- on March 3 at 6 am. Meanwhile, Nirbhaya's father said this will send a rape and brutalizing of a 23-year- taken any kind of due permission protest and said: "Protest has been han said. strong a message to society in curbing crimes like rape. "The hanging of the old paramedical student in a mov- from the concerned authorities and going on for a long time, how can Speeding school four convicts on March 3 will send a strong message to society and help in He also mentioned that Delhi curbing crimes like rape," Nirbhaya's father told a news agency. ing bus on the night of December police. Solicitor General Tushar you block a public road?" The Sha- High Court had given seven-day 16, 2012, by six people including Mehta also apprised that court, "We heen Bagh area of Delhi had lately bus overturns, 14 time to the convicts and that peri- a juvenile in Delhi. The woman had a meeting with welfare societies gained nationwide attention due to a students injured od is over. had died at a Singapore hospital a that it's not fair to bring the entire continued anti-CAA sit-in by peo- GORAKHPUR: Fourteen chil- A Delhi court had adjourned lenging the rejection of mercy dismissed Sharma's petition. few days later. city to hostage under the garb of ple, especially Muslim women dren were injured on Monday the hearing for February 17 on plea of convict Vinay Kumar President Ram Nath Kovind One of the five adults ac- protest... There are continuous ef- against the Citizenship Amendment when a speeding school bus the plea of the state and Nirb- Sharma was pending before the had also rejected the mercy peti- cused, Ram Singh, had allegedly forts of negotiations going on." On, Act (CAA), National Population overturned in Shohratgarh area haya's parents seeking issuance of Supreme Court. tions of convicts Akshay Thakur committed suicide in the Tihar February 10, a two-judge bench of Register and National Register of of Siddharthnagar district here, death warrant as a petition chal- On Friday, the apex court had and Mukesh Singh. Jail during the trial of the case. the apex court, headed by Justice Citizens. police said. The incident took place in the morning when the bus carrying 25 children of Saraswati Hry: Diet allowance of Airtel pays Rs 10,000 cr to Shishu Mandir lost control and Armed robbers loot 30 overturned, they said.