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BJP-RSS CONCLAVE Opposition questions presence of Union Ministers at meet

NEW DELHI: Kashmir and howto deal with Pakistan-spon-sored terror dominated thesecond day of the BJP-RSSco-ordination meet here onThursday, even as the Oppo-sition Congress protestedthe presence of Union Minis-ters there at the behest of anon-state actor when theyare accountable only to thepeople.

Union Ministers RajnathSingh (Home), Manohar Pa-rikkar (Defence), Smriti Ira-ni (Human ResourceDevelopment), Jual Oram(Tribal Affairs) spoke to 93delegates, including RSSchief Mohan Bhagwat, aboutthe challenges facing theirMinistry.

Although an annual fea-ture in the RSS-BJP eventscalendar, this meeting is dif-ferent in the sense that it ismuch bigger in terms of dele-gates, and the duration (threedays instead of the two daysnormally reserved for it).

The heavy presence ofMinisters, with Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi expectedto attend on Friday, saw theOpposition raise the red flag

over the accountability of thegovernment to the RSS.

As the meeting went on tilllate in the night, reactions onsocial media and the princi-pal opposition Congress par-ty looked askance at it.

Ministers of the govern-ment giving presentations tonon-elected shenanigans of asupposedly non-political or-ganisation and getting ap-praised by the RSS for the

work they are doing is noth-ing but a grave travesty of de-mocracy, AICC generalsecretary in charge of media,Randeep Surjewala said.

The RSStold Mr. RajnathSingh and Mr. Parikkar thatthe escalation in terror inci-dents needed to be tackledboth by security forces andthrough political efforts.

Nothing but agrave travesty of democracy,says Congress

Nistula Hebbar

Kashmir, terror dominate agenda

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NEW DELHI: Five months afterit suspended its licence toreceive foreign donations,the Ministry of Home Af-fairs (MHA) cancelled theregistration of GreenpeaceIndia on Wednesday.

The measure under theForeign Contribution Regu-lation Act (FCRA), meansthat the NGO, part of an in-ternational network by thesame name, would not beable to receive any kind offoreign donations from nowon. Sources said the decisioncame in the wake of preju-

dicially affecting the publicinterest and economic in-terest of the state, whichviolates the conditions ofgrant of registration.

The order issued on Sep-tember 2 comes after theNGO was given a 180-daynotice to tender a reply tothe MHA. Vinuta Gopal, in-terim co-Executive Directorof Greenpeace India said theorganisation will continueits work and also highlightthe nationwide crackdownon civil liberties.

Greenpeace Indiasregistration cancelled Vijaita Singh

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SRINAGAR: The Jammu andKashmir High Court onThursday ordered a CBIprobe into the multi-croreJammu and Kashmir Crick-et Association (JKCA) scamcase, in which the formerChief Minister, Farooq Ab-dullah, is one of the accused.

A Division Bench of ChiefJustice N. Paul Vasantha-kumar and Justice B.L. Bhatasked the CBI to completethe probe in six months.

Court asks CBIto probe J&Kcricket scam Peerzada Ashiq

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VIJAYAWADA: Vijayawadanative Yellepeddi Padmas-ree, now Padmasree War-rior, is in the race for thepost of Twitter CEO, ac-cording to a report byBloomberg Business.

The news agency saidTwitters search firm Spen-cer Stuart has reached outto three or four senior busi-ness executives, includingMs. Warrior, to lead thecompany.

Indian joins the race to lead TwitterG. Venkataramana Rao

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NEW DELHI: The Indian govern-ment on Thursday said com-petitive devaluation ofcurrency is a major threat tothe stability of the global econ-omy. The statement was madein the release announcing Fi-nance Minister Arun Jaitleysdeparture to Ankara in Turkeyfor a meeting of G-20 FinanceMinisters and central bankgovernors.

The recent devaluation ofmajor currencies followed bycurrency depreciations in alarge number of Asian emerg-ing markets raises the risk ofcompetitive devaluations.Competitive currency deval-uations, at a time when globaldemand is sluggish, is a majorthreat to stability in the globaleconomy, the Ministry re-lease said. The two-day meet-ing will take stock of the globaleconomic situation and theyuan devaluation is expectedto dominate the agenda.

However, according to sev-eral economists, the Chinesedevaluation of the yuan is notof serious consequence to theIndian economy, even in themedium term. Over the lastyear, the Indian currency hasdevalued far more than theChinese one. I do not under-stand what the major fear isover the Chinese devaluation.It will not affect our economytoo much even if it devalues itscurrency in the future, econo-mist Surjit Bhalla told TheHindu.

Ankara meet will

review global

economic scenario TCA Sharad Raghavan

G-20 discussions set to focus on impact of yuan devaluation


NEW DELHI: The Indiangovernment has receivedinvestment proposals worth$3.05 billion under PrimeMinister Narendra Modis Makein India initiative, Commerceand Industry Minister NirmalaSitharaman has said.

She also assured exportersthat the government wouldgive top priority to developingmodern infrastructure forboosting shipments tooverseas markets and spurringgrowth.

I know all of you haveconcerns about infrastructuregrowth among others. I assureyou we will give maximumpriority to infrastructuregrowth and development, shesaid at the Diamond Jubileecelebrations of the EngineeringExport Promotion Council of

India (EEPC India) here.She said India was very

much on the recovery path witha higher GDP growth rate andimproving manufacturinggrowth. The investmentproposals worth $3.05 billionreceived were indicative of theimpetus to the economy.

Ms. Sitharaman also urgedthe engineering exporters tobuild a brand for the sector inthe global market. Engineeringexports accounted for 22 percent of Indias totalmerchandise exports.

Commerce Secretary RitaTeaotia said that despitenumerous challenges on thedomestic and global fronts, theengineering sector proved thatIndia could be a consistent andgood competitor on the globalfront.

Got investment proposalsworth $3.05 bn, says MinisterSanjay Vijayakumar


NEW DELHI: A memorandumof understanding (MoU)signed in May between Pa-kistans Inter-Services In-telligence (ISI) and theNational Directorate of Se-curity (NDS) of Afghanistanwill not be implemented,said former AfghanistanPresident Hamid Karzaihere on Thursday.

Rejected by people

In the first indication thatthe Ghani government maynot be able to operationalisethe controversial agreementbetween the two intelli-gence agencies, Mr. Karzaisaid it was rejected by theAfghan people.

The MoU does not re-main, will not remainNo.We [President Ghani and I]had a conversation aboutthat which will bear fruit astime moves on.

It [MoU] is somethingthe Afghan people have re-jectedthey have not ac-cepted it. It is clearly againstAfghan interests, Mr. Kar-zai told a small group ofjournalists during a visit.

Mr. Karzais commentscome months after the Af-ghan parliament witnesseduproar over the contents ofthe MoU reportedly signedin May 2015 by Afghan in-telligence chief Rahmatul-lah Nabil and ISI ChiefGeneral Rizwan Akhtar inKabul in May 2015. Law-makers in the lower house,the Wolesi Jirga had threat-ened to invalidate theMoU unless it was discussedand approved by them.

MoU withISI dropped, says Karzai

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NEW DELHI: After the DelhiHigh Court asked it to showthat it was complying withthe government's ban on app-based diesel taxis, Ola Cabson Thursday said it wouldtake off diesel-run vehicleswithin two weeks and ply on-ly the compressed natural gas(CNG) cabs in the Capital.

The diesel taxis would berestricted to inter-city travel.The company has madechanges in the Ola Cabs appallowing the users to chooseonly CNG cabs in Delhi.

Only CNG Olacabs in DelhiMohammed Iqbal

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NEW DELHI: The Capital bid aquiet farewell to AurangzebRoad in the early hours of Fri-day as workers of the New Del-hi Municipal Council erasedall signs of the Mughal empe-ror to make way for PresidentA.P.J Abdul Kalam.

The NDMC team began re-painting the signboards on theposh Lutyens Delhi road justpast midnight.

The public notice on the re-naming will be out on Fridaymorning and the boards on theentire stretch will be changedto reflect the new name by 6a.m., said NDMC vice-chair-person Karan Singh Tanwar.

The NDMC had cleared aresolution on August 28 tochange the name of the roadfrom its colonial-era monikerto Dr. A.P.J Abdul KalamRoad, in honour of the formerPresident who died on July 27.

Mr. Tanwar said the deci-sion of the NDMC, which vot-ed unanimously in favour ofthe renaming, was full and fi-nal.

However, the decision has

been challenged in the HighCourt and will be heard on Fri-day.

The NDMC decided tochange the name of the roadfollowing three separate pro-

posals, including from twoBJP MPs. One of those whoproposed the renaming, EastDelhi MP Maheish Girri hadsaid that the change was right-ing the wrongs of the past.

Meanwhile, even before theold name was removed onThursday, Google Maps had al-ready made changes. A searchfor Aurangzeb Road, directed

one to A.P.J Abdul KalamRoad, creating confusionamong Delhiites and visitors.

The road witnessed its shareof controversy when Hindugroups blackened the boardsof roads bearing the names ofMuslim leaders a few monthsago. The Delhi Sikh GurdwaraManagement Committee hadalso demanded that it benamed after Guru Teg Baha-dur in 2014.

Damini Nath

NDMC employees at work erasing the nameAurangzeb Road from the sign board afterThursday midnight. PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA (SEE ALSO PAGE 6)

A quiet farewell to Aurangzeb Road

AHMEDABAD: Hardik Patel,22-year-old leader ofGujarats Patel reservationmovement, and hisassociates were booked lateon Thursday evening forrioting and forced entryinto the campus of Umiya,a Patel communityeducational institution onthe outskirts of

Ahmedabad.Umiya campus manager

Manubhai Patel filed anFIR accusing Hardik andhis close aides Chirag,Mahesh, Dinesh andArvind of entering thecampus withoutpermission and creating aruckus.

Mr. Patel, convener ofPatidar Anamat AndolanSamiti (PAAS) that has

launched a State-wideagitation demandingreservation for theeconomically influentialPatel community ingovernment jobs andeducational institutions,and his associates wantedto hold a meeting at thecampus to decide theirnext move.

Hardik Patel, associatesbooked for riotingMahesh Langa

CRACKS EMERGE | PAGE 15

TO CONTEST ALONE

SP quits Bihar alliance

LUCKNOW: The grand alliance inBihar suffered a blow onThursday with the SamajwadiParty storming out of it anddeciding to contest theelections on its own. However,JD(U) president Sharad Yadavrushed to meet SP supremoMulayam Singh to try and sortout the differences.

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SHEENA MURDER

Indrani confesses

MUMBAI: Indrani Mukherjea,the key accused in the SheenaBora murder case, hasconfessed to her role in thecrime, while Peter Mukherjeawas questioned again.

NEWS | PAGE 15

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he Aam Aadmi Partys stu-dents wing, Chhatra YuvaSangharsh Samiti (CYSS), hascome out with its manifestofor the Delhi University Stu-dents Union elections, sched-uled on September 11.

The manifesto focuses onthree issues degree, incomeand wifi all of which are link-ed to the recently-announcedschemes by the AAP govern-ment in Delhi. It was during aconcert on Tuesday that ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwalpromised a loan scheme forhigher education, one lakhjobs within a year and free Wi-Fi in colleges.

Abhash Chandela of theCYSS said the scheme for edu-cation loans will roll out fromSeptember 8. Their rivals,however, see this as a last-min-ute tactic to woo students.The AAP government an-nounced the scheme in theirmaiden budget. Why will it beinitiated just three days beforethe DUSU elections? There is apolitical agenda behind thetiming. It is misuse of power,said Vijender Gupta, leader ofOpposition.

Providing free Wi-Fi, whichwas among the popular fea-tures in the AAPs manifestoduring the Delhi elections,finds a place in the CYSS mani-festo as well. We welcome thefact that the Delhi governmenthas already started the tender-ing process and feasibilitystudies with telecom oper-ators, companies like Googleand Facebook and giants like

IBM and Cisco, to make DelhiIndias first city that offerspublic Wi-Fi, says the mani-festo.

Mr. Chandela said that ini-tially, Wi-Fi will be provided inUniversity Special Buses, pub-lic spaces, high-footfall areasof North and South Campus,and colleges where quality ofWi-Fi is poor. Wi-Fi is ourfocus area and the governmenthas assured us that it will bemade available by this year-end, he said.

On the lines of a job fair or-ganised by the Delhi govern-ment, CYSS members say thatsuch fairs will be held in theCapital each month if they arevoted to power.

The students wing has alsocome up with pamphlets withpictures of Arvind Kejriwaland Bhagat Singh on them.

AAP STUDENTS WING FOCUSES ON FREE WI-FI, JOBS

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WI-FI IS OUR FOCUS AREA. THEGOVERNMENT HAS ASSURED USTHAT IT WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

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NEW DELHI: Two days afterUnion Minister of State forCulture Mahesh Sharmastirred up a controversy bystating that there would be alittle less of JawaharlalNehru in the Nehru Memo-rial Museum & Library(NMML), its director Ma-hesh Rangarajan broke hissilence to maintain that themodernisation plans wouldkeep in mind the basic ob-jective of spreading theideas of the country's firstPrime Minister, awarenessof the freedom struggle andhistory of modern India.

In a statement, Mr. Rang-arajan said there will be spe-cial focus on the governanceof India under Nehru, some-thing which has been large-ly left out in the presentexhibition.

Further, Mr. Rangarajanasserted that Teen MurtiBhavan is the house of Neh-ru the Prime Minister, andthe Museum will focus onhis years as Prime Ministeras he, along with great col-leagues, laid the foundationsof post-colonial India.

The NMML director saidthat modernisation plans being undertaken as part ofthe official commemorationof Nehru's 125th birth anni-versary had been approvedby NMML's ExecutiveCouncil.

The statement made nomention of Mr. Sharma's as-sertion that NMML and oth-er autonomous institutionsunder the Culture Ministrywould be used to also pro-mote the work of the ModiGovernment.

What it does say is thatNMML will also enhancethe intellectual componentof governance through na-tional seminars and interna-tional conferences, an inputthat Nehru always consid-ered of high value.

Nehru Museumhead breakssilence onrevamp planAnita Joshua

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NEW DELHI: The Chhatra YuvaSangharsh Samiti (CYSS) haslanded in trouble for organisinga music concert at the Talkatorastadium on Tuesday. DelhiUniversity officials are nowmulling legal action against theparty.

The music concert, organisedahead of the Delhi UniversityStudents Union (DUSU)elections, is being seen as theuse of money power toattract votes. It saw thepresence of singers like VishalDadlani, Shilpa Roa and theAstitva band. Though theperformers claimed that theyhad not taken any money to be apart of the concert, the NSUIand ABVP have criticised theCYSS and submitted writtencomplaints to the university

administration in this regard.Further, the presence of

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwaland other senior leaders alsobecame a point of criticism.

As per university norms,students should fight electionsas students. They cannot getendorsements from candidatesof political parties. There is alimit of Rs.5,000 oncampaigning expenditure as perthe Lyngdoh Committeerecommendations, said D.S.Rawat, DU faculty and ChiefElection Commissioner for DUSUpolls. We have receivedcomplaints about CYSS fororganising the music concert.We are seeking legal opinionabout what action could betaken, Mr. Rawat said.

He did not clarify what actionwould be taken, but said a legalcell was probing the matter.

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ourt visits for hearings offer under-trial prisoners the best opportuni-ties to smuggle prohibited itemsinto Tihar jail. Around 400 recov-eries of such items have been madeby the accompanying policemenduring frisking after court visitsthis year. And these are just therecoveries. With 1,300-1,500 un-dertrials being taken to courts ev-eryday, the actual number of suchsmugglings could be much higher,say police officers tasked withtransfer of these prisoners.

There have been several instanc-es of Tihar jail staff being accusedof aiding inmates to procurebanned items, as well as prisonersrelatives throwing tennis balls con-taining SIM cards and bladesacross the high walls of the prison,but few opportunities are betterthan court visits.

The family and friends of prison-ers lie in wait in court premises onthe date of the hearing of theirward. When an undertrial is ledfrom the prison vans to the cour-trooms, these people mob him withthe intention to transfer items likesurgical blades, tobacco products,SIM cards, cash and chits contain-ing secret information, says Dep-uty Commissioner of Police (ThirdBattalion) Shivendra Kant Tewari.

The items are passed through onthe pretext of handshakes andhugs. Sometimes, even lawyerspass on items during legal consul-tations, the officer says. The arti-cles are mostly concealed byprisoners in body cavities and of-ten go undetected even when theypass through the metal detectordoor-frame.

In May, we caught a man sup-plying 25 packets of drugs to a pris-oner being produced in RohiniCourts, said Mr. Tewari.

While policemen undergo train-ing for searching and frisking pris-oners, most of them are relativelyinexperienced on the job for the

first few days. The police say mostsuccessful smuggling of goods intoTihar jail takes place when suchpolicemen are put on the job.

Court visits also provide amplechances to plan an escape as notmore than two policemen general-ly escort a prisoner to the cour-troom. Four prisoners, includingthree while being taken for courtappearance, have made good theirescape from the custody of ThirdBattalion this year.

One of them, Surat Singh, man-aged to escape from Tis Hazaricourt premises in late July afterone of his accomplices sprayedchilli powder into the eyes of theescorting policemen. He wasnabbed from the court premises bythe same team.

On three other occasions, pris-oners escaped by either pushingaway the escorting policemen orentering into a scuffle with them.

Barring one incident, the ThirdBattalion soon recaptured the es-caped prisoners.

In one of the escape incidents,policemen are accused of extend-ing favours to a prisoner who wasescorted court visit in Rampur, Ut-tar Pradesh, in January. The po-licemen allegedly took him forlunch to an eatery outside the rail-way station instead of a securedone inside. Five policemen are cur-rently under suspension in thatcase.

Only a few days ago, six police-men of the Third Battalion weredismissed from service after theywere captured taking a prisonershoe shopping in Agra.

COURT VISITS OFFER INMATES A CHANCE TO SMUGGLE BANNED ITEMS, PLAN ESCAPE

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WHEN AN UNDERTRIAL IS LED FROM THEPRISON VANS TO THE COURTROOMS,THESE PEOPLE MOB HIM WITH THEINTENTION TO TRANSFER ITEMS LIKESURGICAL BLADES, TOBACCO PRODUCTS,SIM CARDS, CASH AND CHITS CONTAININGSECRET INFORMATION

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Exhibition: Solo show of paintings by Suma-ti Mehta at Convention Centre Foyer, India Hab-itat Centre (IHC), 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Exhibition: An exhibition of Prints & Wa-tercolours by M.F. Husain & Devraj Dakoji at ArtHeritage Gallery (Basement), Triveni Kala San-gam, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Exhibition: Elephant the divine mys-tery an exhibition of photographs by RajeshBedi at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre(IHC), 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Painting: Paradox, a solo exhibition ofdrawings and paintings by Vijendra S. Vij at Gal-lery No. 3, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan,Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Seminar: Kirori Mal College is organising aseminar on Students Politics: Nature, Scope &Relevance. Main Speaker Dr. Vikram Dutt at

Seminar Room, Kirori Mal College, University ofDelhi, 9.30 a.m. onwards.

Lecture: Is the Future Feudal? Imaginingthe Social Structure of Sustainability by Prof.Purnendu S. Kavoori, Azim Premji University,Bengaluru, at Seminar Room, Library Building,Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 3 p.m.

Screening: Sangeet Natak Akademi presentsSarfraz Chishti and Party, Moradabad videoscreening as part of Sanchayan screening ofarchival films and video recordings at MeghdootTheatre, Rabindra Bhavan, Ferozeshah Road, 4p.m.

Screening: McFarland, USA Englishmovie screening at American Center, 24, Kastur-ba Gandhi Marg, 6 p.m.

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NEW DELHI: A differently-abled manwas found dead under mysteriouscircumstances at his home inNorth-East Delhis Karawal Nagaron Wednesday. His wife had beenadmitted to a hospital at the timeof the incident after she allegedlyconsumed rat poison afterfollowing a quarrel with him.

The 32-year-old victim wasunable to use his legs since anaccident one-and-half years ago.He was found hanging from therailing of the stairs at his home onWednesday afternoon.

The local police are puzzled howa differently-abled man, who wasunable to walk, was able to hanghimself. They suspect he was killedbefore being hanged to pass it offas suicide.

Even as all possibilities arebeing probed, the victims wife anda neighbour are under the scanner.So far, she has told police that sheconsumed rat poison on Tuesdayfollowing a quarrel with herhusband over monetary issues.

After the deceased mansaccident, his wife began workingfor a private firm to make endsmeet. They often fought overfinancial issues. The victims twosons, aged eight and nine years,discovered his body, after whichthey raised an alarm, said a policeofficer.

Neighbours initially did notbelieve that the victim had hangedhimself. They visited the crimespot only after the two childreninsisted they accompany them totheir home. The police weresubsequently informed.

Differently-abled man found hanging

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NEW DELHI: Hundreds of Tiharconvicts underwent training inmaintaining their calm andcomposure during difficult times. Aspart of the workshop, the convictsalso participated in a multiple choiceexam that aims to imbibe moralvalues through self-introspection.

The workshop was conducted bySatyug Darshan Trust.

This exam for self-introspectionis an effort to enable everyone tointrospect and know more abouthumanity, morality and ethical valuesin the Q&A form, said theorganisation. The one-hour longevent is usually meant for studentsbetween Classes IX and XII.

Workshop at Tihar

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NEW DELHI: Fourteen years after he al-legedly murdered his live-in partner inWest Delhis Dwarka, an abscondingaccused was nabbed by a special cellteam from an Uttar Pradesh village.

Jaspal is accused of killing his broth-ers wife Monu, who was in a live-inrelationship with him after her hus-bands death. Jaspals drinking habitsled to frequent quarrels between thecouple. He fatally assaulted her oneevening in August 2001 after she ob-jected to his drinking.

He took Monus daughter and fledthe house. He first went to Haldwani inUttarakhand, where he worked at afarm. Thereafter, he visited his villageand left the girl there before escapingto Punjab, where he worked as a watch-man at a mango orchard for five years,said a senior police officer.

Upon meeting with an accident, hevisited Etah town in U.P., where he didodd jobs for the next six years. He re-turned to his village for the last coupleof years and was working as a labourer.The police claim they made several at-tempts to apprehend him from the vil-lage, but he always managed to hide.

His luck ran out on Tuesday as apolice team nabbed him. He has ad-mitted to the murder and the local po-lice have been informed, said the policeon Thursday.

Man arrested 14 years after killing live-in partnerStaff Reporter

Jaspal is accused of killinghis brothers widow, who was in a live-in relationshipwith him. He allegedly killedher in an inebriated state inAugust 2001

NEW DELHI: A school principal on herway to receive the Presidents Medalon Teachers Day was drugged androbbed by two men in the second ACcompartment of a train after it depart-ed from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.

Principal Rekha Saxena lost a walletcontaining Rs.50,000 and some docu-ments. Her brother was robbed of hiswatch. The 56-year-old and her broth-er were found unconscious by somecoolies at Delhis Nizamuddin railwaystation.

They have been admitted to Mool-chand Hospital where their conditionis stated to be stable. Union HumanResource Development Minister Smri-ti Irani visited themat the hospital.

Delhi police have registered a zeroFIR based on their complaint and in-formed the police in Mathura aboutthe incident. The suspects are yet to beidentified.

A resident of Indore in Madhya Pra-desh, Ms. Saxena is the principal ofKendriya Vidyalaya in Gwalior. She isto be awarded the Presidents Medalfor her performance in the field of aca-demics. In a career spanning three dec-ades, she has served many governmentschools.

The siblings had boarded the Samata

Express on Wednesday. When thetrain reached Agra, two men posing astea vendors entered the compartmentand sat opposite them. They offeredtea to Rekha and her brother, whorefused.

The siblings went to sleep some-time later, only to wake up in thehospital. The police suspect the twoaccused sprayed them with somechemicals, thus, rendering them un-conscious.

Principal drugged, robbed in trainStaff Reporter

Madhya Pradesh-based RekhaSaxena was on her way toDelhi receive the PresidentsMedal on Teachers Day.

NEW DELHI: Describing amother-daughter duo as re-al brave hearts for deposingfearlessly against two rob-bers, which led to their con-viction, a Delhi court hassentenced each accused toeight years of imprisonment.

They had robbed the duoof their jewellery, Rs.50,000and a mobile phone at theirAdarsh Nagar residence inNorth-West Delhi in 2001.

There was also a third ac-cused in the case, but thecourt acquitted him, givinghim the benefit of doubt.

They [investigating agen-cy] grabbed judicial powersand showed the accused tothe witnesses much beforehe was even arrested in thepresent case, the court said.

Robbers jailed Special Correspondent

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NEW DELHI: Lack of cleanlinesstopped the list of residentscomplaints at a grievance re-dressal workshop held by theNorth Delhi Municipal Corpo-ration on Thursday.

Continuing its interactiveprogramme launched in July,the civic body held sessions inthe Pitampura and Paschim Vi-har wards where senior officialsand leaders of the Corporationheard residents out.

Deputy Mayor Neelam Goelsaid that about 200 residents at-tended the event, but only 35complaints were taken up aseach RWA had one representa-tive to give complaints.

Most people we interactedwith had complaints about mis-sing manhole covers, dirtydrains, garbage lying aroundand lack of upkeep of municipalparks, said Ms. Goel.

She added that the com-plaints that can be addressedwithout the use of funds wouldbe taken up immediately, andthose that require greater re-sources will be addressed within15 days. The North Corporationhas been undergoing a financial

crisis since the beginning of2015, and has been unable to paysanitation workers on time. TheBJP-led Corporations initia-tives under the Swachh BharatMission have failed to make a bigdifference as it just doesnt havethe finances to carry out the am-bitious plans.

The citizens interaction pro-gramme is being held in all 104wards of North Delhi, with 10sessions having been organisedalready. The Corporations aim isto improve communication withthe public and increase transpar-ency in the grievance redressalmechanisms.

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NEW DELHI: Cleaning of SouthDelhis Bhikaji Cama Place willbe the responsibility of thePower Trading Corporation(PTC) India from September15, with the company adopt-ing the area from the SouthDelhi Municipal Corporation.

PTC India and the SDMCsigned a memorandum of un-derstanding on Wednesday.The company is now respon-sible for keeping 39,665 sqmetre of area clean. The com-pany will have to deploy work-ers and keep roads, footpathsand open spaces clean.

The sponsored include twoservice roads, the open parkingspace and open area of BhikajiCama Complex. An SDMC offi-cial said this was the first timean entire area was adopted by acompany.

PTC adoptsBhikaji Cama Place

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NEW DELHI: Household green waste producedin South Delhis Vasant Vihar will now besent to a composting facility in a local park,cutting down the amount of trash that goesto garbage dumps by 75 per cent.

The Residents Welfare Association ofD-7 Vasant Vihar and the South Delhi Mu-nicipal Corporation will maintain the com-posting facility at Shaheed Rajguru Park.While inaugurating the facility on Wednes-day, SDMC Standing Committee chairper-

son Radhey Shyam Sharma said the civicbody will expand the project to other wards.

The three-acre park has multiple pits toconvert green waste into compost using or-ganic technology. Though the SDMC hasbeen composting green waste from over6,400 parks for years now, this is the firsttime that household trash will be segregatedand sent to the pits.

The RWA had been working on the segre-gation mechanism for about two years now.The initiative was the idea of 95-year-oldresident Promila Vohra.

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fter the Delhi High Court asked itto show that it was complyingwith the government's ban onapp-based diesel taxis, Ola Cabson Thursday said it would takeoff diesel-run vehicles within twoweeks and ply only the com-pressed natural gas (CNG) cabsin the Capital.

The diesel taxis would be re-stricted to inter-city travel. Thecompany has made changes inthe Ola Cabs app allowing the us-ers to choose only CNG cabs inDelhi. Ola's counsel, senior ad-vocate P. Chidambaram, said AllIndia Tourist Permit taxis oper-ating on diesel on point-to-pointwould no longer be available inDelhi. The Bench of Justice Man-mohan was informed that neces-sary software had beendeveloped in this regard.

The Court asked ANI Technol-ogies, which operates under thebrand of Ola, to file an affidavit byOctober 5 showing that it hadcomplied with the July 29 orderupholding Delhi government'sban on app-based cab services.

The Court said Ola would haveto pay compensation for pollut-ing the city by plying diesel cabs,to which the company agreed.When Delhi government counselNaushad Ahmed Khan suggestedthat Ola be asked to plant 50,000trees, the Court said it would pass

an order later on the cost to bepaid for planting of trees.

The Courts directions cameon a contempt petition moved bythe Association of Radio Taxis,which accused Ola Cabs of flout-ing the Court's ruling upholdingthe Delhi government's ban onapp-based diesel cabs.

After giving assurance to theCourt, Ola Cabs said it had in-troduced a first-of-its-kind tech-nology that would helpdistinguish CNG and diesel vehi-cles on the app and enable theusers to choose only CNG vehi-cles within Delhi.

COMPANY TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR POLLUTING CITY BY PLYING DIESEL CABS

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THE COMPANY HAS MADE CHANGES IN THE OLA CABS APP ALLOWING THEUSERS TO CHOOSE ONLY CNG CABS IN DELHI. BUT, THEY CAN OPT FORDIESEL-RUN CARS FOR TRAVELLING IN GURGAON AND NOIDA

GREEN VERDICT

December 8, 2014: The Delhi government bans Ola Cabs andother app-based taxis until they obtain licence from the TransportDepartment after the Uber cab rape incidentDecember 23, 2014: The Delhi High Court sets aside governmentorder prohibiting Ola Cabs from plying on city roadsDecember 26, 2014: The Delhi government amends guidelines ofRadio Taxi Scheme 2006 January 1, 2015: The Delhi government bans app-based cabservices till they comply with new guidelines of Radio Taxi Scheme June 3, 2015: Transport Department rejects Olas application forlicence July 29, 2015: High Court upholds the Delhi governments orderbanning app-based cab servicesAugust 11, 2015: Olas appeal against July 29 Single Judge orderdismissed by Division Bench of High Court September 3, 2015: Ola agrees to stop diesel-run cabs and plyonly CNG cabs in Delhi

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NEW DELHI: In an allegedcase of medicalnegligence, a five-and-half-year-old girl died at aprivate hospital inJanakpuri on Wednesdayafter being admitted withhigh fever.

Samaira Madan, aresident of Vikaspuri, wasunder treatment at ShishuSadan multi-specialityhospital. Following herdeath, her parents have

filed a police complaintagainst the hospitalalleging medicalnegligence.

Samaira was sufferingfrom fever for the last twodays. We had consultedlocal doctors and also gother tested for dengue, butthe results were negative.When her temperature didnot drop, we took her toShishu Sadan, where theyadmitted her. Her pulserate dropped onWednesday afternoon and

before proper medicaltreatment could beprovided, she died, saidthe deceaseds uncle AmitMadan.

Hospital medicalsuperintendent SantoshKumar said the hospital isawaiting the post-mortemreport.

The treating doctor hasalready given hisstatement to the policeand we have submitted allthe documents related tothe case, Dr. Kumar said.

Child dies in hospital, parents call it negligence Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Health officialshave warned that many pri-vate hospitals and patholog-ical labs are not usingstandardised methods to de-tect and confirm dengue.

Of the two types of antigentest kit NS1 ELISA and NS1rapid antigen test, the formeris reliable but the later beingused in most private facilitiesis questionable, they noted.

ELISA method for detec-tion of dengue infection issensitive, specific and reliable,while NS1 test sometimesgives false results, which inturn may lead to inaccuratetreatment. NS1 rapid test insome hospitals is also costlierthan ELISA, said a seniorhealth department official.

The Union Health Ministryis providing IgM ELISA kits toall 33 sentinel surveillancehospitals and one diagnosticcentre designated by the Delhigovernment, where the gener-al public can undergo freetests for detection of dengue.

Need forstandardiseddengue testing Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The computerisedPassenger Reservation System(PRS) will remain closed from11.30 p.m. on Friday to 3.40a.m. on Saturday due to up-gradation work of the DelhiPRS. The PRS services andPRS-related information atvarious interface, includingrailway enquiry service on tel-ephone no. 139, will not beavailable during this period.

Upgradation oftrain enquiry Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A court here hasasked the CBI to file a reporton the status of proceedingsbefore Chief Vigilance Officerof the CPWD and the PWD ona plea against former DelhiChief Minister Sheila Dikshitand others for alleged corrup-tion during the 2010 CWG.

Additional Chief Metropoli-tan Magistrate SudhanshuKaushik said a report be sum-moned from the CVO aboutthe status of inquiry beingconducted by it and the actiontaken against the erring offi-cials. PTI

CWG: CBI askedto file report

NEW DELHI: The Delhi policehave challenged the dis-charge of 36 accused per-sons, including cricketers S.Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila andAnkeet Chavan, in the IndianPremier League-6 spot fixingcase by the trial courtthrough an appeal in the Del-hi High Court. A SessionsCourt had passed the dis-charge order on July 25.

The appeal moved by Spe-cial Cell of Delhi police onWednesday contended thatthe trial courts order givingclean chit to the accused wasunsustainable, as it had er-roneously interpreted thelaw pertaining to the Mah-arashtra Control of Orga-nised Crime Act (MCOCA)under which the case wasregistered.

The Sessions Court hadheld at the stage of framing ofcharges that the police hadfailed to gather necessary in-gredients to establish a pri-ma facie case under theMCOCA against the cricket-

ers and others. All the ac-cused were earlier releasedon bail.

In its appeal, the Delhi po-lice submitted that the logicand conclusions arrived at fordischarging the accused werenot correct. The trial courthad erred completely in in-terpreting the provisions ofthe MCOCA dealing with syn-dicate crime and the issue offraming of charges needed tobe looked into again, it stated.

The appeal said the trialcourt should not have dis-charged the accused at thestage of framing of chargesand should have consideredall evidence after a propertrial.

Six persons, including un-derworld don Dawood Ibra-

him and his aide ChhotaShakeel, who are absconding,were declared proclaimed of-fenders by the court.

The Special Cell of Delhipolice, which probed the 2013case, had named 42 accusedin the charge sheet. Six ofthem are absconding, even asthe police claimed that Da-wood and Shakeel were be-hind IPL spot fixing, as theywere controlling the fixingand betting market.

While dropping all chargesagainst 36 of the accused per-sons, the Sessions Court hadheld that the police had failedto establish any nexus or linkbetween the accused andcrime syndicate allegedly runby Dawood and Shakeel.

The court had disagreedwith the Delhi police for in-voking the MCOCA in thecase and said the evidenceplaced on record by the pros-ecution could not prima facieestablish even an offence un-der the Public Gambling Act.Besides, the offence of cheat-ing was also not made out pri-ma facie, it said.

Trial court order giving clean chit to accused unsustainable

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Delhi Police challenge discharge of players in IPL spot-fixing case

The Special Cell of Delhi police, which probed the2013 case, had named 42 accused in the charge sheet

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run Goel, the new vice-chairmanof the DDA, has laid out his plansfor building brand DDA withconvenient and courteous deliv-ery of services and a string ofmobile apps.

I know it is a challenge, butbrand will be developed whenthings will improve, Mr. Goel, a1985 batch IAS officer of Punjabcadre, who assumed office on Au-gust 1, said at his first press con-ference on Thursday. .

The VC said that the allottes ofnew housing schemes will now beable to share their grievancesabout construction such as qual-ity and slope of flooring, finishingof walls, windows and doors,kitchen shelf/working platformof kitchen, lifts, external finish-ing, and lawn through a mobileapp as well as on its website.

That is not all. Consumers cannow give their feedback on main-tenance of flats such as plaster ofrooms and drainage, which willcut their dependency on RWAs.

The reasons of dissatisfactionwill be taken as the public ad-visory for improving the servicesand quality of construction. Onnearly 7,000 flats surrenderedfrom the 2014 mega housingscheme due to their small size,the DDA said the designs forhouses will be made public.

The DDA will monitor utilisa-tion of funds for maintenancewith regular meetings with theRWAs. The app will make surethat no vested interests prevail.Even the RWAs will become ac-countable. The security deposit,

which is given by the contractorfor two years, will be linked to theperformance feedback from theallottees/RWAs, said Mr. Geol.

Besides, there is an app forfeedback on services being of-fered by the DDA at its communi-ty halls. The app can bedownloaded from the DDAswebsite. The feedback will beutilised in improving the servicesby the DDA engineering depart-ment, the V-C said. There is an-other app for feedback on qualityof roads. The DDA has startedtraining its staff engaged in re-ceiving and replying to the publi-cs grievances to check delays andensure no vague replies are givento those already aggrieved.

Disposal increased

Mr. Goel said in a month, thepercentage of disposal has in-creased from 68 per cent as onJuly 28 to 86 per cent as on Au-gust 31. The pendency of caseshas come down from 823 in July

to 432 on September 3.Mr. Goel stressed the need for

enhancing public toilet facilities,especially for women, while re-vising the draft unified buildingbylaws. He said the Building By-laws 1983 and the National Build-ing Code 2005 adopted 60 men:40 women ratio for public toilets,which is inadequate.

As per the revised UnifiedBuilding Bylaws 2015, a men-women ratio of 50:50 has beenadopted. He said that the DDAhas decided to use its vacant landfor sporting facilities for thosewho cannot have access to sportscomplexes. Such areas will havefixed play equipment like basket-ball poles, volleyball posts, crick-et pitches, and football goalpostsand the DDA will providecoaches.

NOW, ALLOTTEES OF HOUSING SCHEMES CAN SHARE GRIEVANCES ON APP

New vice-chairman aimsto develop brand DDA

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Arun Goel, vice-chairman of DDA addressing a pressconference at Vikas Sadan in New Delhi on Thursday. PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

THE SECURITY DEPOSIT, WHICH ISGIVEN BY THE CONTRACTOR FOR TWO YEARS, WILL BE LINKED TO THEPERFORMANCE FEEDBACK FROM THE ALLOTTEES/RWAS

PLAN OF ACTION

NEW DELHI: After doing areconnaissance of all sportsgrounds owned by the DDA, FIFAofficials have found only the one atthe 2010 Commonwealth Gamesvillage sports complex comingclose to its standards for practicesessions for the under 17 FIFAworld cup match to be played inDelhi. The FIFA officials have beenin constant touch with the DDAofficials concerned, sources said.

However, the turf at the groundat the 21-acre sports complexneeds to be updated.

The FIFA under 17 tournamentis a country-specific event. Onlyone match is going to be played inDelhi for which Jawaharlal Nehrustadium has already been identifiedas the venue. For practice, the CWGstadium has been selected. Its turfneeds to be updated that will bedone by next year, said D. Sarkar,commissioner (sports), DDA.

The under 17 FIFA world cup willbe held in India in 2017 and this isfor the first time the country ishosting an international footballmatch.

At a time when the DDA has beenincentivising sports, none of itsother grounds for football,including the one at Sirifortstadium, could meet theinternational standards for footballpractice. The DDA had earlier thisyear, after a delay of four years,fast-tracked work on the 62-acrefootball stadium in Dwarka, which itclaims will cater to the citys needfor a world class football stadiumwith FIFA standards.

CWG groundcomes close toFIFA standardsAkanksha Jain

RAIPUR: The Nagpur Bench ofthe Bombay high court onThursday granted bail to Ja-waharlal Nehru Universitystudent Hem Mishra, whowas arrested by the Maha-rashtra police in August2013 for alleged Maoistlinks.

A resident of Almora inUttarakhand, Mr. Mishrawas granted bail by a singlejudge Bench of Justice A.S.Chandurakar on a surety ofRs. 20,000.

However, the court barredhim from leaving the coun-try and he would have tomark attendance at the Al-mora police station once aweek.

We hope to receive thecourt order by tomorrow butit might take another day tosecure release of my client,

advocate Surendra Gadling,who represented Mr. Mishrain the court, told The Hindu.

Mr. Gadling was assistedby advocate Harshal Lin-gayat and Nihalsing Rathod.Bharati Dangre was the gov-ernment pleader in the case.

Mr. Mishra, who suffersfrom physical disability inhis left hand, was a memberof Democratic StudentUnion in JNU and a keencultural activist.

The Maharashtra policehad claimed to have arrestedhim from the Aheri Bus sta-tion in Gadchiroli district ofthe State along with two oth-er Maoist sympathisers.

Police had also claimedthat an embedded micro-chip was recovered fromthe possession of Mr. Mishraafter his arrest and had ac-cused him of being a Naxalcourier.

However, Mr. Mishrasparents and his JNU friendsmaintained that he was go-ing to Hemlakasa village tomeet Dr. Prakash Amte formedical treatment and thathe had no Maoistconnections.

JNU student accused ofMaoist links granted bailPavan Dahat

Hem Mishra wasarrested by theMaharashtra police inAugust 2013

NEW DELHI: After former OkhlaMLA Asif Mohammed tried toname a road in the area afterMughal emperor Aurangzeb,the present AAP MLA haswritten to Chief Minister Ar-vind Kejriwal expressing hisdissent over renaming theoriginal road in Lutyens Del-hi after former President Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

In his letter addressed toMr. Kejriwal, Amanatullahhad said that the AAP govern-ment couldve renamed one ofthe three roads within the NewDelhi Municipal Council(NDMC) jurisdiction Chelmsford Road, Hailey Roadand Minto Road - as thesewere named after the Britishrulers. I request you to kindlyreconsider renaming Aurang-zeb Road and choose one of thethree roads instead, he wrote.

Meanwhile, Mr. Asif onThursday placed 10 moreboards on the road betweenOkhla and Kalindi Kunj withAurangzeb Road written onthose to ensure that nobody

removes those. But the AAPMLA said that he isnt withhim on this and in fact, con-demns what Mr. Asif has done.

What he did is wrong andthis will dent the image of the

entire community. Not just Okhla MLA, even

Delhi Cantonment MLA Su-rinder Singh at the NDMCmeeting had then raised thequestion over renaming Au-

rangzeb Road. Some of us asked it in the

meeting that roads such asShanti Path could be renamed,but the earlier proposal wascleared.

South Delhi Municipal Cor-poration Mayor Subhash Aryasaid on Thursday that renam-ing the road between KalindiKunj and Jamia Nagar was il-legal. Naming roads, buildingsand parks under the jurisdic-tion, not just ownership, of thecorporation has to be ap-proved by the Naming and Re-naming Committee.

We dont name roads afteroppressors like Aurangzeb. Al-so, the former MLA has no au-thority to do so as the area,Jamia Nagar, comes under thejurisdiction of the SDMC,said Mr. Arya.

He said that officials havebeen asked to find underwhose jurisdiction the roadcomes and if it is within theSDMC then the boards will beremoved. However, the areaMLA said that the road is withUttar Pradeshs Flood and Ir-rigation Department.

AAP MLA writes to Kejriwalon renaming Aurangzeb roadMaria Akram

GURGAON: Gurgaon now hasthe dubious distinction ofhaving the lowest percentageof Aadhaar enrolment in theState, revealed the latest fig-ures released by the UniqueIdentification Authority ofIndia, regional office,Chandigarh.

With only 12.85 lakh peoplehaving enrolled themselvesout of the total 15.14 lakh, asper the 2011 census, Gurgaonhas Aadhaar saturation of 85per cent, which is the lowestamong the 21 districts.

Faridabad leads in Aadhaargeneration, with 111 per centwhile Panipat has achieveduniversal coverage with 100.3per cent saturation. Ambalaand Kurukshetra are at thirdand fourth position with 99.9per cent and 97.9 per cent.

Speaking to The Hindu,Gurgaon deputy commission-er T.L. Satyaprakash said thatthe district administrationwas making efforts to enrol

the remaining population.We have been enrolling overone lakh people every monthfor the past eight months. Butit is mostly migrants who areenrolling themselves andtherefore the numbers do notreflect in the Aadhaar satura-tion of the district.

The locals are reluctant toenrol because they have mul-tiple gas connections, BPLcards or ration cards. Since

holding Aadhaar is voluntary,we cannot force people to en-rol themselves.

He admitted that enrollingchildren in 0-5 years was achallenge. People are reluc-tant to bring newborns toAadhaar centres. We havenow equipped the staff withtablets to visit the householdswith children in the 0-5 agegroup and enrol them, saidMr. Satyaprakash.

Poor Aadhaar enrolment in Gurgaon Ashok Kumar

NEW DELHI: The Delhi HighCourt on Thursday directedthe Union government toconsider all paramilitaryforces as organised servic-es and extend all benefits,including the non-func-tional financial upgrada-tion (NFU), to their group Aofficers from 2006 in termsof the Sixth PayCommission.

To benefit 10,000

The decision will benefitabout 10,000 officers of pa-ramilitary forces such asthe Central Reserve PoliceForce, Border SecurityForce, Indo-Tibetan Bor-der Police, Central Indus-trial Security Force, andSashastra Seema Balthrough better promotionavenues and service-relat-ed benefits. A DivisionBench of Justice KailashGambhir and Justice NajmiWaziri, deciding a writ pet-ition filed by over 200 serv-ing and retired officers ofparamilitary forces, saidthe Centre itself had admit-ted in various notificationsand official communica-tions that they would beconsidered as organisedservices since 1986.

The NFU, introduced inthe pay commission, givesfinancial upgradation onpar with others to the offi-cers of a particular batchwho cannot be promoteddue to lack of vacancies.

Facing stagnation

The petitioners had con-tended that they were fac-ing stagnation not onlybecause of lack of adequatepromotional posts, but alsobecause a majority of theposts of the top hierarchyhad been filled by officerscoming on deputation.

The writ petition, seek-ing directions for grant ofNFU benefits, said the dep-rivation of financial benefitwas affecting the moraleand efficiency of the offi-cers of paramilitary forces.

Treat paramilitary forces as organisedservices, HC tellsUnion govt.


NEW DELHI: Karol Bagh, an ar-ea popular for with shop-pers, but equally infamousfor its chaotic traffic, mightget a pedestrian-friendlymakeover if the Delhi gov-ernment has its way.

Tourism Minister KapilMishra convened a multi-ple-agency meeting onThursday to come up with astrategy to make Karol Bagha world-class tourist andtrader-friendly destination.

The focus was to decon-gest the area and make it pe-destrian-friendly,government officials said.

The meeting was attendedby senior officials of theNorth Delhi Municipal Cor-poration (NDMC), DelhiTourism, Delhi Develop-

ment Authority (DDA), andKarol Bagh MLA VisheshRavi. In a statement, the

Delhi government said thata traffic management planfor Karol Bagh was dis-

cussed. It was decided thatplans to create parking siteswould now be expedited.Creation of new parkingsites was also discussed.

It was a preliminarymeeting, but a beginning inthe right direction has beenmade. The next meeting onKarol Bagh will be held nextweek, where we will plan totake the ideas forward, saida senior government official.

The government said a pe-destrian-friendly KarolBagh will improve footfallfor traders, apart from mak-ing environment less-pol-luted and traffic less--congested.

The Delhi governmentsaid that it will write to com-petent authorities to expandRaahgiri in Karol Bagh aswell.

Staff Reporter

Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra convened amultiple-agency meeting on Thursday to come upwith a strategy to make Karol Bagh a world-classtourist and trader-friendly destination FILE PHOTO

Plan to make Karol Bagh pedestrian-friendly

NEW DELHI: The person behindan anonymous Twitter han-dle that harassed journalistSwati Chaturvedi may be ar-rested soon as the Delhi Po-lice have narrowed down onthe suspect, sources claimed.

Senior police officers asso-ciated with the probe, howev-er, said the investigation wasstill on, and insisted that theywere yet to identify the cul-prit. Sources said the policehad traced the account, butchose to remain silent be-cause they were yet to receivea confirmation on the IP ad-dress from Twitter. To holdup in court, the account in-formation has to be providedby Twitter.

Only the administratorcan give us the IP address. Wehave sent multiple notices toTwitter, most recently onThursday. We have also sentsummons under Section 91 ofthe Criminal Procedure Codeto Twitter Indias offices, in-cluding the systems office inDelhi, said Prem Nath, Dep-uty Commissioner of Police(South Delhi). He said thatthe social media company has

not responded so far. In the first case against an

anonymous online troll, anFIR was filed against the op-erator of the account @Lu-tyensInsider for stalkingunder Section 354 (D) of theIndian Penal Code. Ms. Cha-turvedis complaint to the po-lice detailed the sexistremarks made by the ac-count. Though Twitter even-tually suspended the account,it had over 40,000 followersat the time of the FIR. Theperson behind it claimed tobe a journalist covering poli-

tics, and usually posted gossipand inside information fromthe corridors of power.

According to sources, theaccused is a print journalistworking for an English-lan-guage media organisation.That the account was beingoperated from Delhi has alsobeen reliably learnt.

Tired of the delay in track-ing down the accused, Ms.Chaturvedi wrote to DelhiPolice Commissioner B.S.Bassi on August 21 and Sep-tember 2.

She said that she has beeninformed that an arrest is im-minent, but police officershave refused to comment onthat. If the person is not ar-rested soon, I will not hesitateto take the matter to the courtor to the National Commis-sion for Women. This is thefirst case of its kind, thereneeds to be some conclusion,said Ms. Chaturvedi. Ironical-ly, Ms. Chaturvedi received afresh barrage of abusive com-ments on Wednesday whenshe tweeted that the policehad assured her of an arrest inthe case soon. I received 10rape threats, she told TheHindu on Thursday.

Damini Nath & Jatin Anand

Twitter troll likely to be arrested

NEW DELHI: The Anti-Corrup-tion Branch (ACB) is likely torecommend a Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI) inves-tigation into alleged irregu-larities and interferencerelated to the preparation of achargesheet in the CNG Fit-ness Scam of 2002, which wassubmitted by a section of offi-cials posted in the anti-graftbody to a city court onThursday.

Terming the role of Lieu-tenant Governor Najeeb Jungin the framing and submis-sion of the charge sheet high-ly suspect, a seniorgovernment official said aprobe by an independentagency was necessary to getto the bottom of both his al-leged participation in thehurried filing of the chargesheet as well as his involve-ment in the scam.

There was clear interfe-rence from the L-G officeaimed at ensuring that his

name did not figure anywherein the charge sheet, said theofficial. The charge sheet isone in a series of successivesteps taken by Mr. Jung, or athis behest, to stall the prose-cution of those involved, theofficial added.

This, even as the ACB isunderstood to be in the proc-ess of suggesting disciplinaryproceedings against severalofficers posted in the unit, in-cluding Joint Commissionerof Police (ACB) Mukesh Mee-na, associated with the prep-aration of the charge sheet inrelation to an inquiry orderedby Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia a day earlier.

In a related development,the court is understood tohave refused to take thecharge sheet on record whilethe commission of inquiry in-stituted by the Delhi govern-ment to probe the scam,headed by retired High Courtjudge S. N. Agarwal, has sum-moned Mr. Meena for ques-tioning on Friday.

On August 11, the Aam Aad-mi Party-led government hadone-upped the L-G office byapproving the setting up ofthe independent commissionto probe the scam.

A government official saidit was a matter of public re-cord that the L-G had deniedhis nod for the same at leaston two occasions.

The official said Mr. Junghad, in fact, set up a commit-tee headed by former DelhiHigh Court judge MukulMudgal to probe the casewhich had found no malafide intent on the part of anyDelhi government official inrelation to the scam.

Jatin Anand

Anti-corruption body for CBI probe into CNG charge sheet

There was clearinterference from theL-G office aimed atensuring that hisname did not figureanywhere in thecharge sheet


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WEATHER WATCH (City-wise reading yesterday)

For metros highlighted, readings show max temperature

Delhi | 36.2 C

Kolkata | 33.4 C

Mumbai | 31.3 C

Hyderabad | 36.4 C

Chennai | 34.8 CBengaluru | 31.7 C

Image & Data: India Meteorological Department

Forecast for Friday: Heavy rainfall would occur at isolated places overSouth Interior Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Puducherry and Kerala

Max Min Max Min Max MinAgartala 30.8 25.5 Hubballi 32.0 21.0 New Delhi 36.2 27.6

Ahmedabad 35.0 24.4 Hyderabad 36.4 25.5 Patna 34.9 25.5

Allahabad 36.7 26.6 Imphal 28.7 22.0 Port Blair 29.0 23.1

Aizawl 23.2 Jaipur 36.3 25.0 Pune 30.8 18.0

Bengaluru 31.7 22.0 Kohima 23.5 Puducherry 31.7 22.0

Bhopal 30.3 23.0 Kolkata 33.4 23.7 Raipur 32.0 25.8

Bhubaneswar 33.2 25.2 Kochi 32.2 26.0 Ranchi 34.1 22.8

Chandigarh 34.8 26.4 Kozhikode 33.6 25.9 Shillong 23.7 16.9

Chennai 34.8 28.0 Kurnool 36.9 26.8 Shimla 22.5 15.2

Coimbatore 33.1 24.3 Lucknow 36.3 25.3 Srinagar 29.2 15.3

Dehradun 31.5 21.5 Madurai 35.4 23.9 Vijayawada 35.3 23.4

Gangtok 20.4 16.7 Mangaluru 32.7 24.4 Visakhapatnam 31.4 25.4

Goa 31.0 24.0 Mumbai 31.3 23.8 Thiruvananthapuram 34.4 25.4

Guwahati 32.0 23.5 Mysuru 31.8 20.7 Tiruchi 34.9 25.0

SRINAGAR: Four militantshave been killed in an en-counter in the Handwaraarea of Kupwara district,more than 60 km from Sri-nagar, taking the number ofterrorists killed in just oneweek to eight. The Armylost one solider, the secondcasualty for the force in 24hours.

Based on specific intel-ligence about the presenceof three or four terrorists inthe Haphruda forest, a jointoperation was launched bythe Army and the police onWednesday evening.

A fierce gun battle en-sued, which continued in-termittently through thenight resulting in elimina-tion of four terrorists, saidthe Srinagar-based defencespokesman Lt. Col. N. N.Joshi.

He said the identity ofthe slain militants was be-ing ascertained. FourAK-47 rifles, one under-barrel grenade launcher,ammunition, grenades andradio sets were recoveredfrom them, he added.

One soldier was killedand three injured in theovernight encounter that

ended on Thursday morn-ing. The fresh killings camejust a day after a local mil-itant and an Army manwere killed in an 11-hourgun battle in the Rafiabadarea of Baramulla district.

The security agenciesfear that handlers acrossthe border are trying topush more militants intothe Valley ahead of winteras snowfall leads to closureof passes near the LoC.

Jawan also loses life during encounterPeerzada Ashiq

Army personnel inspecting arms and ammunitionrecovered after an encounter. PHOTO: PTI

4 militants killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: The street walls ofsouth Kashmir have turnedinto canvas for the NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)and the militant outfit HizbulMujahideen to win theattention of the people of theregion.

While the NIA posters seekcooperation in nabbingmilitants involved in theUdhampur attack, the Hizbhas asked the people to desistfrom anti-movementactivities.

As the NIA reportedly setup offices in Jammu andKashmir for the first time, the

first public campaign againstmilitants was launched inPulwama district on Thursday a poster campaign againstfugitive militants.

The posters announce areward of Rs. 10 lakh and Rs. 5lakh to those providinginformation regarding twowanted militants Abu QasimIlyas Abdul Rehman and AbuOkasha, respectively, bothsuspected to be themasterminds behind theUdhampur attack. Aged 18 or19, Abu Okasha is a resident ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa inPakistan, read the posters.

The Hizbul Mujahideenposters claimed to have

identified some anti-movement activities. Whileour militants are laying downtheir lives for the cause, thereare certain elements whoindulge in anti-Islamicactivities. We ask such peopleto stop their activities, readsthe poster in Urdu.

The NIA has plans ofestablishing a permanent basein the State. This is the clearviolation of the special statusand Constitution of the Stateand this action does not haveany legal and moraljustification, said aspokesman for a faction ofHurriyat headed by Syed AliGeelani.

NIA, Hizb in poster war in south Kashmir

Peerzada Ashiq

PANAJI: Jammu and KashmirDeputy Chief Minister Nir-mal Singh has ruled out anyimmediate threat to theState from the Islamic State(IS), playing down the signif-icance of youths waving Pa-kistani and IS flags in recenttimes.

They are just one or twopersons, and they are doingit for media attention and donot have any impact, he saidat a press conference here on

Thursday. Mr. Singh said the Union

government had taken stepstowards decentralisation,and development funds forthe State now came directlyfrom the Centre.

He said the State was seri-ous about the return of theKashmiri Pandits to theState. It did not want them togo back to their originalzones; efforts were beingmade to persuade them tolive in composite colonies.

Once the Union govern-ments relief package comesoff, our objective will be tosee that they go back to theirancestral homes, he said.

Mr. Nirmal Singh accusedthe Opposition parties ofpoliticising the issue.

Prakash Kamat

No threat from IS: Nirmal Singh J&K Deputy ChiefMinister plays downsignificance of youthswaving Pakistani andIS flags in recenttimes

PUNE: The Information andBroadcasting Ministry has de-cided to hold fresh parleys withFilm and Television Institute ofIndia students who have beenon a strike demanding removalof actor-turned-BJP leader Ga-jendra Chauhan as Chairman ofthe institute.

The Ministry has asked FTIIDirector Prashant Pathrabe to

convey to the protesters the de-cision to hold talks after a three-member team submitted its re-port on the causes of theagitation to the government,students said.

Since the invite was orallyconveyed to the Director , thereis some confusion on the natureof issues that will be discussed.We are awaiting clarity on this,Harishankar Nachimuthu, FTIIStudents Association chief, said.

Shoumojit Banerjee

Centre ready for talkswith FTII students

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10 | THE HINDU FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2015NOIDA/DELHINATION

ADILABAD: The ban on beefand consequent prohibitionon slaughter of bulls inMaharashtra in March thisyear have seen a jump intrading at cattle shandies orbail bazars in TelanganasAdilabad district, as animalsfrom the bordering areas ofthe neighbouring State arebeing sold here.

As trading of cattle forslaughter declined in Mah-arashtra, about 500 to 600cattle sourced from poorfarmers in the backward Vi-darbha region of Maharash-tra arrive every month inthe bail bazar in Adilabadtown alone.

Adilabad district sharesalmost all of its 350 km ofnorthern and easternboundaries with Vidarbharegion and people across theborders have had trade rela-tions since long time.

The geographical proxim-ity is an advantage to cattletraders in the neighbouringregion as the animal herdsneed to be taken to marketsin Adilabad on foot.

We brought these 36 ani-mals from Umri village inPandharkawda tahsil in Ya-vatmal district after walkingthe 60-km distance for 24

hours, said Shankar Ra-mesh Bhandarwar, one ofthe three daily wage labour-ers herding the cattle to re-ach Adilabad town early onThursday. There is a banon transporting animals inlorries which necessitatestravel on foot, heexplained.

Not all the beef animalscoming from Maharashtraare sourced to farmers indistress, according to a cat-

tle broker in Adilabad whowished to remain anony-mous. Like farmers in Adi-labad, Maharashtravillagers sell only the ani-mals which are no longer ofany use in agriculture, hepointed out.

Potential market

Over the years, thisnorthern most district inTelangana has emerged animportant centre of cattle

trade thanks to the presenceof the huge mechanisedslaughterhouses in andaround Hyderabad.

Weekly shanties

An estimated 8,000 to10,000 animals are tradedfor slaughter in the weeklycattle shandies at Adilabad,Ichoda, Mutnoor, Utnoor,Jainoor, Koutala, etc.

Only an addition

Cattle from Maharash-tra are only an addition tothe local markets whichhave 50 per cent of the trad-ed animals hailing from dis-tant Uttar Pradesh, MadhyaPradesh and Chhattisgarh,disclosed Saleem Qureshi,another local middleman.People in those States con-sume buffalo meat for beefand there is neither a de-mand for bullocks nor arethere large abattoirs inthose States, he added tospecify reasons for Adilabadattracting traders fromcomparatively farawaylands.

S. Harpal Singh

About 500 to 600 head of cattle bought from poorfarmers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtraarrive in Adilabad every month. PHOTO: S. HARPAL SINGH

No escape from slaughter for these cattle Ban on slaughter inneighbouring Maharashtra triggersan exodus of sorts

KOLAR: While households cryover soaring onion prices,there are people who see anopportunity in this. The greedfor making a fast buck drovethree youths to hijack a lorryladen with onions on August31. On Wednesday, the KolarTown police succeeded in solv-ing the case by arresting one ofthe three accused of the crime.Venkatesh (22) was arrestedwhile his two accomplices Premkumar and Prabhu areabsconding.

Motorcycle-borne Venka-tesh, a resident of Malur taluk,along with his associates, alleg-edly intercepted the truck on aflyover on NH 75 on the out-skirts of Kolar town at mid-night on August 31.

Packed in 380 bags, 20tonnes of onion worth Rs. 9lakh was being transportedfrom Bengaluru to Tadepalli inAndhra Pradesh. Two amongthe trio got into the truck cabin

and threatened the driver, M.Karappan, at knifepoint. Theyrobbed Rs. 24,000 in cash and amobile from Karappan, pushedhim off the truck and drove itaway. The third associate fol-lowed on the motorcycle. Ka-rappan filed a complaint withthe police the next day. He alsogave the motorbike registra-tion number to the police.

On Wednesday afternoon,the police traced Venkatesh

near the APMC Yard in Malurwhere he was trying to make adeal to sell the load of onionsfor just Rs. 2 lakh. The policerecovered the truck worth Rs.21 lakh and the full load of on-ions. They also recovered Rs.17,000 in cash, a knife and themotorcycle.

Venkatesh confessed to thecrime, sub-inspector Laksh-minarayan told The Hindu onThursday.

Three drive away with bags worth Rs. 9 lakh

Vishwa Kundapura

Youth held in Kolar forhijacking onion truck

Onions packed in 380 bags were seized by police in Kolar district on Wednesday. PHOTO: SPECIALARRANGEMENT

HYDERABAD: With no one tohear cases and pass judgmentsin the Telangana State Con-sumer Disputes RedressalCommission (TSCDRC), con-sumers from the State areforced to approach the Nation-al Consumer Disputes Redres-sal Commission with theirpetitions.

In spite of a separate com-mission being formed aboutnine months ago following bi-furcation of Andhra Pradesh,the Telangana government isyet to appoint a chairman andmembers to hear cases andappeals.

With no one at the helmsince October 2014, about2,000 cases, including appealsand review petitions have piledup. Recently, the NCDRC alsodirected the in-charge Regis-trar of the TSCDRC to issue acheque to a complainant afterhe approached the nationalbody.

It was a case against a build-er. The NCDRC has the author-ity to issue directions to theState Forum. Hence, we wereable to dispose of the case.However, others who cannotspare the time to go to theNCDRC, have to wait, as theircases are pending here, saidan official from the NCDRC,requesting anonymity.

The official said a secondpublic interest litigation (PIL)has been filed in the Hydera-bad High Court to appoint achairman to the Commission.

The PIL filed before thatwas disposed of as the TS gov-ernment had said it wouldmake the appointments, but itdid not do so, he added.

A majority of pending casesare against builders and hospi-tals for negligence, said the of-ficial. Post bifurcation, all thecases pertaining to the cityhave been coming to theTSCDRC. Before this, the com-mission was the same for Te-langana and Andhra Pradesh,and hence all petitions filedwere being disposed of, heexplained.

The TSCDRC, which shouldhave a chairman and two mem-bers to hear cases, will have tolook at all the cases piled upsince October 15, 2014, when itwas formed, after bifurcatingthe Andhra Pradesh State Con-sumer Disputes RedressalCommission.

The official said that bothconsumers and appellants likecompanies against whom caseshave been filed are facing prob-lems now.

Telanganaconsumerforum remainsdysfunctionalYunus Y. Lasania

KANNUR: Amid tension in viewof the clashes between work-ers of the CPI(M) and theBJP-RSS combine, the dis-trict police at circle levelshave taken the initiative toallot separate spots for func-tions by the rival groups onSeptember 5 in differentparts of the district.

Pro-CPI(M) organisations,including its childrens andwomens organisations, havealready secured permissionfor holding programmes in300 centres of the district tomark the culmination of theOnam festival on September5, when the Sree KrishnaJayanthi celebration involv-ing children is being plannedunder the aegis of the pro-RSS Balagokulam.

The major flashpoints willbe Kannur, Thalassery, Talip-aramba, Mattannur, Iritty,Peravur, Kottiyur, andKoothuparamba, where theBalagokulam organises shob-ha yatras in a big way. Policesources said that plans wereon to deploy additional forcesin those areas after separatespots and routes were allot-ted for the two separatefunctions.

Leaders of the rival partieshad agreed at a meeting con-vened by District Collector P.Bala Kiran here recently thatthey would abide by the deci-sions taken at the meetingsbeing convened by the circleinspectors. Functionaries ofthe Balagokulam said onThursday that they wouldhold shobha yatras in 300centres in the district.

Police step in to avoidshowdown in Kannur Mohamed Nazeer KOCHI: Leaving the entire is-

sue of the conduct of the localbody election to the StateElection Commission, A Divi-sion Bench of the Kerala HighCourt on Thursday declinedto issue a directive on the pleaof the State government to al-low it and the SEC to proceed

with the election process toenable the new local bodycommittees to assume officeby December 1.

The Bench comprisingChief Justice Ashok Bhushanand Justice A.M. Shaffique,while disposing of a State gov-ernments affidavit, observedthat at this stage, it did notfind it necessary to issue any

directive. The Bench observ-ed that it was the SEC whichhad to take a decision as perthe constitutional require-ment. Referring to the sub-mission of the governmentthat the election could beconducted in a single phase,the court observed that it wasnot necessary for this court toconsider or take a decision or

express any opinion onwhether it was justified or notto hold elections in a singlephase or two phases. Theseissues had to be addressed bythe SEC. Reiterating its earli-er order which said that theSEC was free to take its owndecision, the court added thatthe SEC had to take the re-sponsibility for its decision.

In fact, a final decision wasyet to be taken by the SEC.

The government in its affi-davit had submitted that theSEC could start the electionprocess on October16 andcomplete it in 46 days.

The election could be com-pleted by November 30 sothat new committees couldassume office by December 1.


Local body polls: ball in Kerala Election Commissions court

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NATION

MUMBAI: The Navy has calledill-intended and frivolous amothers fight for over 22years to find out the causeof the death of her son.

Anuradha Paladhes sonAmar, a clearance diver,was deployed with the East-ern Naval Command Clear-ance Diving Scheme in1993. At an exercise alongthe Kakinada coast on Sep-tember 21, 1993, he jumpedfrom a helicopter into thesea. He did not, however,reach the shore as planned.The body was found twodays later.

The post-mortem reportmentioned no cause ofdeath. A diatom test was or-dered, but not done for ayear. The Board of Inquiry,which was concluded evenbefore the test was done,suggested in its report thatit was an accident. But twoante-mortem injuries wereleft unexplained.

Sensing foul play, the Pa-ladhes approached thecourt. After a 20-year bat-tle, the High Court said inits April 2013 order that thedeath had occurred in sus-picious and mysteriouscircumstances. We hopedthat at least a court orderwould ensure that a new in-quiry was set up and wewould know the true causeof Amars death, Ms. Pa-ladhe, former teacher fromDombivli in Thane district,told The Hindu.

Well-trained diver

The court said the de-ceased was a well-trained

diver and was a cut abovethe other divers, whichwas acknowledged by theNavy.

Inconsistencies

It also pointed to the in-consistencies in the deposi-tion by Navy officials. Atone point, they said Amarsurfaced immediately afterhis dive, but claimed laterthat he was not visible onaccount of the helicopterturbulence. If the courtspells out that the death issuspicious, it is the duty ofthe Navy to find out what issuspicious. It is the right ofa mother to know why andhow her son died. But noaction has been taken, saidSunil Ganu, Ms. Paladheslawyer.

With no sign of a re-in-vestigation despite thecourt order, she filed a writpetition in the same courtin April 2014, seeking a di-rective to inquire into thecause of death. For morethan a year, the Navy did

not even bother to re-spond, she said.

In July 2015, after a courtwarning, an affidavit wasfiled on behalf of the FlagOfficer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Com-mand, Visakhapatnam, byRear Admiral Pradeep Ra-na. It goes without sayingthat the petitioner with herill-intention to misuse thecanons of judicial equityhas been in the habit of fil-ing frivolous litigationwithout any reason to thecontrary, the affidavit said.

The Navy went on to saythat the injuries the sailorsustained are apparentlyaccidental and sufficient inthe ordinary course ofthings to result in death.

Does fighting to knowthe truth count as ill intent?The only thing I have askedin my writ is a new inquiry.Why cant the Navy acceptit, if there is nothing tohide? I have lost my son andI dont know the reason forhis death, Ms. Paladhesaid.

The Paladhes filed acounter-affidavit on Tues-day. The matter has beenpending for over a yearwithout any hearing as theNavy is purposely avoidingit. We wish this wouldspeed up the matter, Mr.Ganu said.

The Paladhes had evenattempted to send a letterto Defence Minister Mano-har Parrikar through a BJPleader. We dont knowwhether it has reached him.At least, I havent heardanything from his office,she said.

Alok Deshpande

A grieving mother stands herground, seeks answers from Navy

During an exercise,Amar jumped from ahelicopter into the seaand his body was foundtwo days later.

rasdad Attavar, former Sri RamaSene district president, was arrestedin Mangaluru on Thursday for alleg-edly posting on his Facebook page amessage threatening writer K.S.Bhagwan

The arrest of Attavar, an accusedin the pub attack case of 2009, fol-lowed registration of a case, suo mo-tu, by the Mangaluru North policeearlier in the day.

According to the police, Attavarposted on his Facebook account amessage, saying that those mockingHinduism would die like M.M. Kal-burgi.

The Central Crime Branch policearrested Attavar under Sections 153(a) (Promoting enmity betweenclasses) and 506 (criminal intimi-dation) of the Indian Penal Code.

According to a senior police offi-cial, they had a consultation with le-gal experts and those from theDepartment of Prosecution follow-ing the arrest. This led to invoking ofthe non-bailable section.

Gets bail

He was produced before the Sec-ond Judicial Magistrate First Class,who remanded him in judicial custo-dy. But later at night, the Magistrategranted him interim bail. The inter-

im bail will be in force till the dispos-al of the regular bail petition filedbefore the Magistrate.

Advocates for Attavar filed appli-cations seeking interim bail and alsoregular bail when the police pro-duced before him before the Magist-rate at the latters house. TheMagistrate allowed the interim bailapplication. The Magistrate postedthe regular bail application for ob-jections from the prosecution onFriday.

The Bantwal police had attractedflak when they invoked a bailableprovision against Bhuvith Shetty, aBajrang Dal activist, who reportedlymade similar comments on his Twit-ter account. Shetty was arrested on

August 31 for allegedly posting onhis Twitter account a warning thatthose mocking Hinduism woulddie like U.R. Ananthamurthy andKalburgi. He had reportedly men-tioned that Bhagwan would be thenext target. The Bantwal police in-voked Sections 153 and 506 andproduced Shetty before the localMagistrate, who granted him bailthe same day.

Meanwhile, Attavar deniedmaking any such comment. Hetold reporters that the Facebookaccount Jai Bajarangi in whichthe comments are seen, was a fakeone. When I do not know who isKalburgi, where is the question ofmaking any such comment? heasked.

Breaks away from

Bajrang DalAttavar, who runs a private se-

curity agency, was with the Baj-rang Dal for nearly eight years.Following the attack at the busyPumpwell junction in June 2005on employees of a saree shop be-longing to different communities,who were going on a trip, therewas a division in the Bajrang Dalleading to the formation of Sri Ra-ma Sene of which Attavar becamedistrict president. It was duringhis time as district president thatSri Rama Sene activists assaultedmen and women at a pub nearJyothi Circle on January 24, 2009.Mr. Attavar was arrested and hewas named the 25th accused in thepub attack case.

ATTAVAR THREATENED WRITER BHAGWAN ON A FACEBOOK POST

Ex-Sri Rama Sene man heldRaghava M.

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Prasad Attavar, who runs aprivate security agency, waswith the Bajrang Dal fornearly eight years. FILE PHOTO: R. ESWARRAJ

WHEN I DO NOT KNOW WHO ISKALBURGI, THERE IS NO QUESTION OFMAKING ANY SUCH COMMENT.

DIVISIVE POLITICS

KOLKATA: Just at a time whenChief Minister Mamata Ba-nerjee claimed that the policehad exercised utmost re-straint in dealing with pro-testers during agitationscalled by Left parties, the Na-tional Human Rights Com-mission (NHRC) has issuednotices to West Bengal gov-ernment seeking its responseon alleged police excess onwomen protesters.

Acting on a complaint thatwomen protesters were at-tacked by police during amarch to State Secretariat onAugust 27, the NHRC onThursday issued notices tothe Chief Secretary and Di-rector-General of Police andCommissioner of Police, Kol-kata. The NHRC has given thegovernment two-week timeto respond to the notices.

The complainants, whichincluded representatives ofAll India Democratic Wom-ens Association (AIDWA),National Federation of Wom-en in India (NFWI) and Jan-wadi Mahila Samity (JMS),alleged that women protes-ters were subjected to batoncharge, tear gas and watercannons by policemen.

Human rights violation

After going through con-tents of the complaints, theNHRC has observed that

complaint, if true, raise a se-rious issue of violation of hu-man rights of the womenprotesters.

Further, if the womenprotesters were attacked bythe police force while protest-ing peacefully, it amounts toviolation of their Fundamen-tal Right to assemble peace-ably and without arms asguaranteed under Article 19(1)(b) of the Constitution ofIndia, the Commissionstated.

On August 27, a protest wascalled by the Left-backedfarmers organisation on theagrarian distress in the Stateand other issues. The pro-tests, which included a marchto Nabanna Building, wasbacked by 17 Left parties. Thecomplaint, which was re-ceived by the Commission onSeptember 2, mentions thatsome of the women protes-ters were severely injuredand one of them was in ICU.

The protests on August 27had turned violent when po-lice clashed with Left frontsupporters.

NHRC notice to Bengalgovt. over police action Shiv Sahay Singh

Women protestersallege that they wereattacked during amarch to the StateSecretariat on August 27

KOLKATA: Addressing a gather-ing of over 10,000 in Chura-chandpur town in southManipur, leaders of varioustribal groups, women and stu-dents organisations resolvedon Thursday to agitatepeacefully without commu-nalising the issue of passageof Bills earlier this week.

They asked the six MLAsfrom Churachandpur to re-sign from the Assembly if thecontroversial Bills are not re-pealed. The earlier demand togrant separate administra-tive status to hill tribes wasput forth, along with the de-mand to institute a judicialinquiry into the killings.

A member of the JAC, coor-dinating the anti-Bill protest,told The Hindu they have de-cided to keep businesses openbetween 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.from Friday.

Quit, Manipuragitators tell sixtribal MLAs Suvojit Bagchi

MALAPPURAM: Child bridescontinue to be Keralas secretshame, despite its hugely ap-plauded human developmentindices and other laurels, ifthe latest available data areanything to go by.

Data from the last Censusin 2011 released last fortnightby the Registrar General andCensus Commissioner of In-dia show there were 23,183married girls below the age of15 years in the State.

In other words, 0.604 percent of all girls in the Stateaged between 12 and 15 hadentered wedlock prematurelyand illegally. And these arejust the officially capturedfigures.

Amplifying the healththreat, the data also say that asmany as 10,175 children wereborn to these child brides inthe State.

Malappuram, the most pop-ulous district in the State,logged the highest number(3,615) of married girls belowage 15. But in percentageterms, this is below the overallState average (0.604).

The districts exceeding theState average are Pathanam-thitta (0.808 pc), Alappuzha(0.735 pc), Thiruvananthapu-

ram (0.730 pc), Kollam (0.667pc) and Kannur (0.665 pc).While Malappuram had a0.594 per cent incidence,Thrissur had the lowest figureof 0.493 per cent.

Detecting and stoppingchild marriages are still a hugechallenge to the dozens ofChild Marriage ProhibitionOfficers (CMPOs) who havebeen appointed in the wake ofenactment of the Prohibitionof Child Marriage Act in 2006.

Sources say tacit approvalto the Data from the last Cen-sus in 2011 released last fort-night by the Registrar Generaland Census Commissioner of

India show there were 23,183married girls below the age of15 years in the Statese illegalmarriages from local politicaland religious leaders remainsas much a hurdle for CMPOs,as do the very secretive natureof many such weddings. Lackof prosecutable evidence andlack of cooperation by thefamilies, neighbours and com-munity leaders compound thesituation.

Yet, data from the SocialJustice Department indicatethat despite these impedi-ments, child marriages werebeing increasingly preventedin Malappuram.

Child marriages remainKeralas secret shameAbdul Latheef Naha

KOLKATA: The spectre of vi-olence returned to haunteducational institutions inWest Bengal on Thursdaywith bullets being firedand bombs hurled at Rai-ganj University in UttarDinajpur district.

About twelve studentswere injured in the clash inwhich the student wing ofCongress Chhatra Parish-ad and the ruling Trina-mool Congress wereinvolved. The injured stu-dents were admitted toRaiganj Hospital.

There was a panic on theUniversity premises and alarge deployment of policepersonnel followed. In an-other north Bengal districtof Malda a school was ra

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