DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES SINCE 1932 `4.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SPEAKERSJudicial’MEET:ovPRESer-IDENTreachTALKS OFinOPPOSITIsomeON ROLEverdicts...organs ofstatemustrespecttheirlimits,saysV-P Naidu cites ban on fireworks,executive Amaravati land deal FIR: being kept out of judgeappointments On Andhra plea, SC selvesasense of supremacy”. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Addressing the two-day 80th AHMEDABAD,NOVEMBER25 All India PresidingOfficers’ lifts HC media gag order Conference held at Kevadia in CURBINGDIWALI fireworks, Gujarat, wherePresident Ram Bhushan, RSubhash Reddy and denying the executive arolein Nath Kovind wasinattendance, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE MRShah ordered partstayofthe the appointment of judgesand Naidu said, “Our Constitution has NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 September 15 HighCourtorder monitoringinvestigationsare ju- demarcated very cleardomains while hearing aplea by the dicialpronouncementsgiving a of eachofthese threeorgans in THE SUPREME CourtWednesday AndhraPradesh government “distinct impression of over- the lines of separation of powers, stayed the AndhraPradesh High whichhad challenged the order. reach,” Vice President Venkaiah though notinavery formalistic Courtorder restraining the me- It directed that the matter be Naidu said Wednesday under- manner... Harmonylies in each dia from reporting the FIR regis- listedfor hearing again in the last lining that the legislature, exec- organdoingits job without inter- teredbythe state police Anti- week of January2021. utive andthe judiciaryshould re- fering in the domain of others... Corruption Bureauinconnection On October 6, Chief Minister spect “jurisdictionalsanctity Unfortunatelytherehas been withallegedirregularitiesinland YSJagan Mohan Reddy,inalet- enshrinedinthe Constitution in- severalinstancesofcrossingthe Vice President Naidu, Speaker Birla at the Statue of Unity dealings in Amaravati. tertoChief Justice of India SA stead of arrogating (to) them- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 museum in Kevadia, Gujarat. ANI AbenchofJustices Ashok CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Days after he entered DDC polls, PDPyouth His hand with God Congress leader AhmedPatel’s body reachatVadodara chief heldinterror case SANDIPG DIEGO MARADONA I 1960-2020 airport. He will be buried at hisvillage Piraman. BhupendraRana NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 DEEPTIMANTIWARY& Waheed THERE ARE legends, immortals BASHAARATMASOOD Parraheld in and G.O.A.Ts, the GreatestofAll Cong loses chief NEWDELHI,SRINAGAR, case naming Time. Then thereisDiego NOVEMBER25 former Maradona. The legendaryfoot- DySP,Hizb ballerdied, aged 60, aftersuffer- crisismanager, THREE DAYS afterhefiledhis ingacardiacarrest onWednesday. nomination from Pulwama dis- To some, he wasthe most trict in Kashmirfor theDistrict ED giftedfootballer ever,whosefeet Development Council (DDC) rendered thebeautiful game all Gandhis their pillar polls, the National Investigation Questions the morebeautiful. To some, he Agency (NIA)onWednesdayar- PLAIN E wasthe mostflawedofgeniuses, ● overtiming rested PDP youth wing leader EX flirting withdrugsand keeping in the backroom WaheedurRehman Parrain friends from theunderworld. To connection with aterrorcase WAHEED PARRA’s arrest some others, he wasanoutright againstsuspendedJ&K police of- by theNIA in the case in- cheat, who flickedagoal withhis ficer Devinder Singh. volving senior police offi- hand, the creator of the mostvil- COOMIKAPOOR “Today, NIA arrested Waheed cer Devinder Singh, ac- ifiedyet the mostromanticised NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 ur Rehman Parra... in connection cusedofsupporting goal in WorldCup history. with Naveed Babu/Devinder Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, is Whatever the opinions and SONIA GANDHI described Singh case forsupporting Hizbul conspicuous forits tim- perspectives, Maradona was AhmedPatel as an “irreplace- Mujahideen in conspiracy with ing.The NIA called him magical,yet real. Magical with his able companion” but, surpris- the other accused persons,” an forquestioning aday af- feet and real in his life. The most ingly,Rahul, who wasoften not NIA statement said. terhefiledhis nomina- magicallyrealistic and realisti- on the same pageashim, Devinder Singh, then aDySP tion from Pulwama for callymagicaloffootballers. One Celebratingagoal in the famous ‘Hand of Gold’ match, featuring summedupthe loss of Ahmed withthe J&K Police, had been ar- the DDC polls. who livedbothlifeand football Argentina vs England in the 1986 WorldCup in Mexico. Reuters bhai –ashewas widelyknown AHMED PATEL rested on January11while trav- on his ownterms. He wasnopre- –morepithily.Rahul acknowl- 1949-2020 elling in acar with Naveed Babu, tender,never triedtoerase his edgedhim as “one of the pillars aknown Hizb-ul-Mujahideen the behestofPakistan. shanty-townupbringing past, could thrill. Youneedn’t beafoot- soccer ball. volvedinthe frame look foolish. of the Congress” –not exactlyan terrorist. The casewas trans- “Wefoundthat Parrawas in neverfeigned righteousness, ball tragic forthat. Dignofurther into archival With England yettorecover understatement from adynast ferred to the NIA whichalleged touchwith some of the keyac- neverdenied thedarkness of his But in this moment of depar- memorythan the non-hand of from the first‘Hand of God’ goal, whoassumes thatwithout the BUSINESSASUSUAL in itschargesheetthat Singh had cusedinthe case. We have evi- soul. Ahuman footballing god, to ture, it’shis footballing legacy God goal in the quarterfinal CONTINUEDONPAGE2 firstfamilythe party is ahollow BY UNNY been providing shelter to Hizb- dence to provethat he was take aliberty.You couldmakea that needs appreciation. Short againstEngland in the 1986 shell. ul-Mujahideen terrorists fora awareofthe conspiracy and may thrilling best-seller out of his life and sturdy,the build concealing WorldCup. The dream fusion of Indeed, Patel, 71,who passed longtime and had been aiding even have been actively involved as well as his football. Both could his agilityand dexterity,hewas rawpace, power, precisionand FULL COVERAGE away early Wednesdayfighting and abetting their activities at CONTINUEDONPAGE2 existwithout overlap, and both adarting virtuoso tethered to a trickery had made everyone in- PAGE 14 multipleorgan failurepost- Covid, wasthe go-toman when- ever the Congress facedtrouble. ANAND IIPH-G STUDY Whichmeant quiteoften. 3minors sent to Amid Covid surge, Centre allows Whether it wasthe modali- ‘More secondary infections ties of tying up with the Shiv Sena foragrand alliance in juvenile home states to put night curfew, curbs Maharashtraortamping down for ‘insulting’ in houses with Covid deaths’ Sachin Pilot’s anger againstChief No sealingof MinisterAshok Gehlotin national flag neededtobe“extravigilant” as Rajasthan or allying with Pranab borders;suggests SOHINIGHOSH death indicatedahigher viral Mukherjee to ensurethat Sonia AHMEDABAD,NOVEMBER25 load in patients.The study ex- wasinstalledparty president in anorth Indian state. As Ramesh EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE staggered office pandsonprior research on sec- 1997 despiteSitaram Kesri’s re- noted, notmanyinthe Congress AHMEDABAD,NOVEMBER25 RESEARCHERS AT theIndian ondary attack ratesinhouse- fusal to step down gracefully, were capable of pulling offsuch timings to InstituteofPublic Health (IIPH), holds with Covid-19infections, AhmedBhai wasonhand to sort feats, mixing powerwith per- A30-YEAR-OLD woman has Gandhinagar,havefound that conducted in the Gandhinagar out the problem. suasion to good effect. been arrested,while three boys, contain numbers secondaryattackrates were rel- district. Partycolleague Jairam AhmedBhai’s strength was aged between10and 14 years, atively higher in householdsthat Publishedasapreprint on Ramesh once described himas his lackofpersonal ambition or have been sent to ajuvenile Testing of passengers arriving from Delhi-NCR, otherstates have reporteddeaths due to November 21,the lateststudy a24X7politician who had more aprivate agenda, attributes home forallegedly insulting the DEEPTIMANTIWARY on at Bandrastation, Mumbai,Wednesday. Amit Chakravarty Covid-19infection as compared has been authored by IIPH-G di- than once come to therescue of CONTINUEDONPAGE2 national flag at Umreth in Anand NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 to those wherepatients have re- rector Dr Dileep Mavlankar,as- the Congress in the nickoftime. on Wednesday, police said. covered, indicatingthat mortal- sistant professor Komal Shah, He recalledhow at well past The woman, her 10-year-old IN VIEW of rising Covid cases by the MinistryofHome Affairs downs withthe Centre’s ap- ity can be usedasasurrogate and publichealth student at midnight he put acall through to LINK BETWEEN CONG son and twoother minors were across the country, the Centreon (MHA) have allowedstatesto proval. marker. NewYorkUniversity Nupur aChief Ministerwho wasbent PAST,PRESENT bookedfor hoisting thenational Tuesdayissuedfresh contain- enforce night curfews,put any “Statesand UTs, basedon In the lateststudy,IIPH-G re- Desai. It remains to be peer-re- on quitting the party next morn- flag allegedlywith distortionsat ment guidelines, giving states number of “local restrictions”, their assessment of the situation, searchers have found that 25 per viewedand published. ing along withhis supporters. AVILLAGE RECALLS their residence at Kadiyaval in some crucial elbowroom to put keep gatherings at social events mayimpose local restrictions cent contactsofthe surveyed On Wednesday, Shah told Afteragood 50 minutes of hu- ALEADER ALWAYS Umreth, police said.