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Tirupati . lucknow NEARBY Speed up trial of politicians, says SC Man mows down Asks Centre to frame scheme by Dec. 13 to set up special criminal courts to deal with their cases 8 in Manhattan Krishnadas Rajagopal ficers, public prosecutors, NEW DELHI court staff and other require- Terror suspect identied as Uzbek The Supreme Court on Wed- ments of manpower and in- Delhi-Centre turf spat nesday asked the govern- frastructure for the special hearing today ment to frame a central courts. NEW DELHI scheme for setting up special A ve-judge Constitution courts across the country to Seeks report card Bench led by CJI Dipak Misra exclusively try criminal cases Giving no quarter, the apex will on Thursday commence involving ‘political persons’. court directed the Centre to hearing a series of appeals In a determined effort to submit a report card by led by the Delhi cleanse politics of criminal- December 13 on the status of government for laying down ity and corruption, the apex the 1,581 criminal cases the law on whether the court said it takes years, pending against Members of Lieutenant-Governor can probably decades, to com- Parliament and State Legis- unilaterally administer the plete the trial against a politi- lative Assemblies at the time Capital without being bound cian. of the 2014 elections. by the “aid and advice” of the By this time, he or she courts would depend on the sons on the lines of the fast scheme should provide de- The court said it wanted elected government. would have served as a Min- availability of funds with the track courts...” tails of the funds required to to know whether its March DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 ister or legislator several States, the court said, “The A Bench of Justices Ranjan set up such courts. 10, 2014, order to complete Life crushed: An investigator walks past the pickup truck DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD times over. problem can be resolved by Gogoi and Navin Sinha The Bench said the Su- the trial in all these cases used in the terror attack in New York on Tuesday. * AFP having a central scheme for ordered the government to preme Court would directly within a year had been com- Haryana Additional AG Rejects argument setting up of courts exclus- place the scheme before it interact with the State gov- plied with or not. Varghese K George lice, but could survive after asked to resign Countering the Centre’s ar- ively to deal with criminal on December 13, the next ernments on issues like the Washington surgery on Tuesday even- CHANDIGARH gument that setting up such cases involving political per- date of hearing. It said the appointment of judicial of- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 A terror attack in lower ing, according to official ac- Haryana Additional Advocate Manhattan in New York City counts. General Naveen Kaushik was on Tuesday claimed eight It was the 15th such incid- asked to resign on lives and triggered a fresh ent in Western cities since Wednesday after he was ‘You have eased out businesses’ 20 dead in NTPC clamour, led by President 2014, when the IS urged its accused of helping the Donald Trump, to restrict followers to use vehicles counsel of a man allegedly immigration to the U.S. At and other easily available involved in the killing of Demonetisation, GST have destroyed the economy: Rahul boiler explosion least 12, including two chil- objects as weapons. 17-year-old Junaid Khan on a dren, were injured. train in June, Advocate Mahesh Langa business is absent. You have Bank’s latest report in which Accident happened at Raebareli plant Not far from the site of Worked as Uber driver General Baldev Raj Mahajan AHMEDABAD destroyed it, your demonet- India’s ranking for the Ease the 9/11 terrorist strikes in The suspect was identified said. Embarking on the third isation and GST have ruined of Doing Business has special correspondent smoke billowing out of the which planes were used as as Sayfullo Habibullaevic phase of his three-day road- it,” he said, addressing jumped 30 places to figure LUCKNOW plant. missiles, Tuesday’s attacker Saipov, 29, who migrated to DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 4 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD show in poll-bound Gujarat, massive crowds in south Gu- in the top 100. At least 20 persons died and used a pick-up truck to mow the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbek- Congress vice-president jarat as his yatra moved “India does not need a more than 90 were injured, Rescue work on down people on a bicycle istan. He worked as an Uber Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday through Bharuch district. certificate from any foreign many sustaining serious Rescue work is still on and path. A note found by in- driver and lived in Paterson, said the NDA government “Finance Minister Arun organisation. Hindustan burns, after a boiler tube ex- district officials, police per- vestigators at the site said New Jersey. Five of the eight may be celebrating the “ease Jaitley said some foreign in- needs a certificate from its ploded at the National sonnel and CISF jawans are the attack was inspired by killed were friends from Ar- of doing business” ranking stitution has certified that In- people, and they are saying Thermal Power Corporation trying to recover the bodies. the Islamic State (IS), and gentina celebrating their but the reality is that it has dia’s ranking in Ease of Do- Narendra Modi and Arun (NTPC) unit in Unchahar in The office of the Director- the suspect shouted ‘Allahu high school reunion in New destroyed the economy and ing Business has improved. I Jaitley have failed,” he said. Raebareli district of Uttar General of Police confirmed Akbar’ as he emerged from York City. An unnamed Bel- businesses with demonetisa- want to ask whether Mr. Jait- Pradesh on Wednesday. 20 deaths so far and the the mangled truck, bran- gian woman is the sixth vic- tion and the Goods and Ser- ley lives in the real or dream CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Workers and engineering death toll, it is feared, could dishing a pellet gun and a tim, while two have not vices Tax (GST). world,” Mr. Gandhi said tar- BJP HITS BACK Ī PAGE 10 staff were active at the 550 go up. paint-ball gun, according to been identified yet. “The entire country will geting the Minister, who on SECURITY UP: Ī PAGE 11 MW unit at the time of the eyewitnesses. He was shot DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES shout and say ease of doing Monday shared the World MOVING UP Ī EDITORIAL accident, which left thick CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 in the abdomen by the po- ‘STEP UP VETTING’ Ī PAGE 12 CM A ND-NDE YK 280428 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 NORTH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI Timings Thursday, November 02 CM Chouhan embarks on RISE 06:34 SET 17:36 Congress, Akalis step up RISE 16:35 SET 04:15 Friday, November 03 two-month-long ‘vikas yatra’ RISE 06:34 SET 17:35 RISE 17:17 SET 05:18 the ante against Khaira Saturday, November 04 Promises more programmes to develop the State RISE 06:35 SET 17:34 RISE 18:01 SET 06:22 Demand that he step down as Leader of Opposition after court summons in drugs case Press Trust of India tricity was available only in Bhopal Jabalpur city at the time of VIKAS VASUDEVA to Punjabis for appointing have been facing accusations Chief Minister Shivraj Singh freedom (1947) and it CHANDIGARH Mr. Khaira as the Leader of of corruption. In case both Chouhan on Wednesday em- reached Sagar after a short A day after summons were Opposition. “Mr. Kejriwal offer to resign their positions barked on a two-month-long time. issued by a local court in should make clear his stand to uphold ethics and moral- ‘Madhya Pradesh Vikas “Gradually, the electricity Fazilka against Leader of Op- on the issue of drugs now as ity in politics, I’ll will follow Yatra’ with an aim to meet reached only the urban position in the Punjab As- he had made this the biggest suit and resign from the posi- people and chalk out new areas and the people of the sembly and senior Aam issue in the last Assembly tion of Leader of Opposi- programmes for the State’s rural areas were leading Aadmi Party leader Sukhpal elections,” said former Min- tion,” said Mr. Khaira. development. Shivraj Singh Chouhan their lives in darkness for a Singh Khaira in a 2015 drugs ister and SAD spokesperson Mr. Khaira said he was Claiming that M.P. now long period,” he said. case, the Congress and Shir- Maheshinder Singh Grewal. neither named in the FIR means “Mera Pradesh” for was given a clean cheat by “When I see Madhya Pra- omani Akali Dal on Wednes- SAD leader Daljit Cheema nor in the chargesheet nor in its residents, Mr. Chouhan the CBI in the Vyapam case desh today, it gives me im- day stepped up the ante urged Chief Minister Am- any statement of independ- said during the yatra, he will on Tuesday, said in an offi- mense pleasure and satisfac- against the senior Aam arinder Singh to initiate a ent witnesses.