wednesday, july 10, 2019 Delhi City Edition 22 pages O ₹ 10.00 P r i n t e d at Ch e n n a i Co i m b ato r e Be n g a lu ru Hy d e r a b a d M a d u r a i No i da V i s a k h a pat n a m Th i ru va n a n t h a p u r a m Ko c h i V i j ayawa da M a n g a lu ru Ti ru c h i r a pa l l i Ko l k ata Hu b b a l l i M o h a l i M a l a p p u r a m M u m b a i Ti ru pat i lu c k n ow c u t tac k pat n a follow us: thehindu.com facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Monsoon heading for a ‘break’ after July 15: Skymet page 9 Farmer suicides have gone up since UPA era loan writeoff : Rupala page 12 Serena overcomes Riske's challenge; Halep cruises past Zhang page 21 Rain stops Kiwis at 2115 in 46.1 overs against India, play to resume today page 20 OPPORTUNITIES A PAGE 17 The Rajya Sabha witnessed its fi rst adjournment on Tuesday, the inaugural session of the second term of the Narendra Modi government, over the Karnataka crisis. The issue rocked the Lok Sabha too, with Congress members walking out. Rahul Gandhi raised slogans against the BJP. DMK members also walked out. Protests by members of the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the CPI and the CPI(M) erupted as soon as the Rajya Sabha reconvened at 2 p.m. following two adjournments. A PAGE 12 Protests disrupt Parliament Nearly 18 years after Sarava na Bhavan hotel staff er Prince Santhakumar was kidnapped and murdered, the owner of the chain of ho tels P. Rajagopal, the main off ender in the case, surren dered in a city court on Tuesday. He was brought in an ambulance as he was not keeping well. Rajagopal, now 73, was cited as accused number 1 in the kidnap and murder of Santhakumar, who was his employee, in 2001. When the trial court gave a lower punishment to the convicts in 2004, the State preferred an appeal before the Madras High Court. In 2009, the Madras High Court sentenced him and fi ve others to life imprison ment. Three others were sentenced to three years’ im prisonment and two more to two years’ imprisonment. In March, the Supreme Court confi rmed the order of the Madras High Court and gave time till July 7 to the convicts for surrender ing to serve prison terms. Rajagopal’s lastditch ef fort to skip incarceration was rejected by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Following the rejection of his plea, he was brought in an ambu lance by his staff to the city civil court complex on the Madras High Court campus. Saravana Bhavan owner comes to court in ambulance, surrenders Case pertains to murder of his employee 18 years ago Special Correspondent Chennai/New Delhi No option left: P. Rajagopal arrives in ambulance to surrender before a court in Chennai on Tuesday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 The political crisis in Karna taka is likely to spill over into the legislature session sche duled to start on Friday, with Speaker K. Ramesh Ku mar stating on Tuesday that the resignation letters of on ly fi ve of the 13 legislators from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) were in order. “These fi ve [letters] are [those] of Anand Singh, Na rayana Gowda, Pratap Gou da Patil, Gopalaiah and Ra malinga Reddy,” he said. “Since the other resigna tion letters were not in the prescribed format, we have sent them a reminder let ter... if you wish, you can submit your resignations properly,” he added. These eight legislators, many of whom are not in Bengaluru, are expected to return on Wednesday to re tender their resignations in the right format. Baig also quits Even as the Speaker ruled on the resignations tendered by the MLAs of the ruling coali tion, veteran politician and suspended Congress legisla tor R. Roshan Baig submit ted his resignation, taking the total to 14 (three JD(S), 11 Congress and two Independents). “Despite the [Assembly] session starting on Friday, I have asked Narayana Gow da, Prathapgouda Patil and Anand Singh to come for a personal hearing, while Go palaiah and Ramalinga Red dy have been asked to ap pear on July 15 [Monday],” said the Speaker. Mr. Ramesh Kumar said Mr. Baig’s resignation was being examined. The Speaker said he would hold a public hearing in the light of complaints from the public against the resignations. ( With inputs from PTI ) 8 letters not in order, says Karnataka Speaker MLAs wanting to quit can send them again: Ramesh Kumar Special Correspondent Bengaluru United front: Congress MLAs staging a protest in front of the Gandhi statue in Bengaluru on Tuesday. * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY CONG. SEEKS DISQUALIFICATION OF REBEL MLAS A PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 MLAS WAITING A PAGE 8 The Supreme Court on Tues day agreed to examine a “substantial question” from the Union government on whether illegal immigrants could even be considered for ‘refugee’ status. A Bench, led by Chief Jus tice of India Ranjan Gogoi, was hearing petitions fi led by two Rohingya men against the government’s proposal to deport their 40,000strong community to their native land of Myan mar, where “discrimination and possibly summary exe cutions await them”. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the primary prayers made in the peti tions were to stop any pro posed deportation and allow the community rights under the international law. “But fi rst decide whether they are refugees... Whether illegal immigrants can even be allowed the status of refu gees... This is the substantial question here,” Mr. Mehta submitted. The court said it would examine the issue and asked the parties and inter venors to complete plead ings by the next hearing. The Rohingya, who fl ed to India after violence in the State of Rakhine in Myan mar, are settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, DelhiNCR and Ra jasthan. The petitions said the Centre’s move violated the constitutional guarantee that the Indian State should “protect the life and liberty of every human being, whether citizen or not”. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had also issued notice to the government on the pro posed deportation. Panic struck the refugee community following media reports of a statement made by the then Union Minister of State for Home Aff airs, Ki ren Rijiju, in Parliament that the Centre had directed the States to identify and deport illegal immigrants, including the Rohingya. SC to decide if illegal migrants can be given the status of refugees Centre’s question came on petition by two Rohingya men who face deportation Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 The Central Pollution Con trol Board (CPCB) has pulled up 52 companies — including Amazon, Flipkart, Danone Foods and Beverages and Pa tanjali Ayurved Limited — for not specifying a time line or a plan to collect the plastic waste that results from their business activities. The Plastic Waste Manage ment Rules, 2016, (which was amended in 2018), pre scribed by the Union Envi ronment Ministry, says com panies that use plastic in their processes — packaging and production — have a res ponsibility to ensure that any resulting plastic waste is safely disposed of. Time line for process Under this system — called the Extended Producers Res ponsibility (EPR) — compa nies have to specify collec tion targets as well as a time line for this process within a year of the rules coming into eff ect on March 2016. The plastic waste can be collect ed by the company or out sourced to an intermediary. The Rules also mandate the responsibilities of local bodies, gram panchayats, waste generators and retail ers to manage such waste. A notice posted on the website of the CPCB, an En vironment Ministry body, said these 52 companies hadn’t yet registered at the online portal and disclosed their disposal plans. “Failing to do so would in vite action against the de faulters,” the notice warned. This action can include fi nes or imprisonment under pro visions of the Environment Protection Act. Little progress The companies were to have registered more than a year ago. In spite of these laws, In dia has made little progress in managing its plastic waste. CPCB pulls up 52 fi rms over handling of waste Jacob Koshy NEW DELHI CONTINUED ON A PAGE 12 C M Y K After facing embarrassment over a chargesheet fi led in a court in Alwar district nam ing dairy farmer Pehlu Khan, allegedly lynched by cow vigilantes in 2017, as “an accused who [had] died”, the Rajasthan police have sought the court’s permis sion to further investigate the cow smuggling case against his two sons and owner of the pickup truck. According to the char gesheet fi led on May 24, Peh lu Khan’s sons, Irshad and Aarif, and truck owner Khan Mohammed were accused of illegally transporting cows out of the State Court’s nod sought to probe Pehlu Khan case Special Correspondent JAIPUR DETAILS ON A PAGE 5 Seven more held for Cong. leader’s murder FARIDABAD Seven more persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Congress leader Vikas Chaudhary last month, the police said on Tuesday. Four persons were arrested earlier and more arrests are likely, they said. Those arrested have been identifi ed as Atul, Saurabh, Sunil alias Monu, Amardeep alias Honey, Dharamjeet, Naveen and Sooraj. CITY A PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD NEARBY Accused jumps from fi fth fl oor of court, dies NEW DELHI A 23yearold man died after allegedly jumping off the fi fth fl oor of a Saket court in south Delhi on Tuesday, the police said. He was arrested on Monday for alleged involvement in two cases of snatching. He was taken on oneday remand which expired on Tuesday, the police said. CITY A PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Late on Monday, a statement released by members of the ad hoc committee governing the aff airs of the Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC) ruffl ed some feathers in the media industry. It listed three problem points for fi lm producers concerning their relationship with various media platforms. Out of the three, two dealt with the ‘expenses’ producers incur during press shows (and related fi lm promotional events). The third problem area listed was critics reviewing fi lms. The statement read: “In the guise of fi lm criticism, any person who attacks fi lms, actors, directors and producers, and crosses all limits, will attract legal action, and will be uninvited from Tamil fi lmrelated events." No swipe at journalists Diamond Babu, a senior PRO in the fi lm industry, clarifi ed: “It is not a swipe at print journalists. But these days, every Tom, Dick and Harry is doing a fi lm review, and they're wounding people with their comments. They say things like, ‘this person doesn’t know what fi lmmaking is.’ It is a review of the fi lm. So, don’t insult the individuals.” Mr. Babu added that YouTube reviewers are the actual problem for Tamil fi lm producers. While print reviews are ‘polished’, according to him, reviewers on the video sharing platform do not deliver the message in quite the same way to their subscribers. And it is a problem because of the huge reach YouTube reviewers seem to enjoy. For instance, Blue Sattai Maran, who hosts the channel Tamil Talkies, is edging closer to one million subscribers on his channel. A source in TFPC indicated that the statement was primarily intended as a response to Mr. Maran due to his style of reviewing fi lms. Mr. Maran was unreachable for comment. “It [legal challenge] is a bit farfetched, if you ask me,” said Prashanth Rangaswamy, a YouTube reviewer, who hosts Tamil Cinema Review. “Movie is a public product. It is not private property if I’m paying my money for the tickets.” He pointed out that while one section of producers objects to the reviews, there is another that uses the YouTube review platforms to advertise fi lms. 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Pradeep Kumar CHENNAI Industry body threatens legal action against critics crossing limits, indulging in personal attacks ILLUSTRATION: SREEJITH R.KUMAR The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to allow Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal to leave India observ ing that he should fi rst depo sit ₹ 18,000 crore the cash strapped airlines owes to its lenders if he wants to go abroad. Justice Suresh Kait, ho wever, sought the Centre’s response on Mr. Goyal’s plea challenging a lookout circu lar issued against him. “I won’t name but some people are sitting outside and India is not able to bring them back. What you [Mr. Goyal] are asking today it is not possible...” the judge re marked, denying any interim relief to Mr. Goyal, even as his counsel pleaded that he has to go abroad to retain his NonResident Indian status. Mr. Goyal and his wife were offl oaded from a fl ight to Dubai on May 25 based on a LOC issued in his name. Re portedly, the circular was is sued by the Home Ministry at the request of the Serious Fraud Investigation Offi ce (SFIO). Insolvency proceedings Jet Airways, which was forced to ground its fl eet in April due to cash crunch, has since been dragged into in solvency proceedings before the National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai. Additional Solicitor Gener al Maninder Acharya told the HC that “investigation by the SFIO is going on and it is a se rious fraud of ₹ 18,000 crore.” Mr. Goyal contended that he had scheduled meetings in the last week of May 2019 with foreign investors, who had shown interest in infus ing funds into Jet Airways. Jet founder Goyal can’t leave country, says HC Told to deposit ₹ 18,000 crore Staff Reporter New Delhi https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 2 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CITY Talk: Seminar on “Internet Gov- ernance - Background, Development and the Asian Perspective” by Samiran Gupta, the Head of India for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at Seminar Rooms, Institute of Chinese Studies, Civil Lines, 3 p.m. Book Launch : K . Satchidanandan, eminent poet and critic will release the book ‘Colours of Loneliness and other stories’ authored by Paramita Satpathy. Followed by, noted novel- ist Chandrahas Choudhury will be conversation with the author at Lec- ture Room-2, India International Centre (IIC), 6.30 p.m. Exhibition: “Vriksha”, an exhibition featuring the work of 30 artists cel- ebrating the eternal power of trees – painting, photographs, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, curated by Uma Nair at Main Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Exhibition: “Delhi Evolution through Flora and Time”, a solo show by Vidur Sodhani at Delhi O Delhi Foyer, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 10 a.m.-8 p.m. (Mail your listings for this column at cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in) DELHI TODAY DSCSC asked to shift its liquor shop NEW DELHI The Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation has been asked to shift its liquor shop from Hans Bhawan in ITO complex after receiving complaints about people drinking openly and creating nuisance. PTI IN BRIEF Among the students admit ted to the UG courses at Delhi University, as of Monday, more than 60% belong to the unreserved category, analy sis of university data showed. Compared to this, only about 3% students each have been admitted under the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Economic Weaker Sections (EWS) categories for which a reservation of 7.5% and 10% have been allotted, according to the university’s bulletin of information. Among Scheduled Caste students, while 15% reserva tion has been allotted, only 10.94% students have been given admission. On the oth er hand, for Other Backward Castes (OBC), for whom 27% has been allotted, 20.96% students have been admitted. According to data shared by DU, 42,621 students were admitted to colleges under various categories, including supernumerary quotas such as Persons with Disabilities (PwD), Kashmiri migrants (KM), Defence category (CW). Reservations under these categories are extend ed over and above the allot ted seats in each course and have been excluded from the present calculation. It should also be noted that SC and ST students who qualify under the cutoff s for unreserved category are not included in the reserved quota. Ratio likely to change With the third cutoff list re leased on Monday, admis sions to several courses un der diff erent categories remained open and are likely to eff ect the ratio. The ratio of admissions under diff erent categories follows a similar distribution in fi nal registra tions as well. Among the 2,58,388 applicants to DU’s courses, the ST and EWS ca tegories were about 3%, the UR category had 59% appli cants, OBC category 21% OBCs and SCs about 14%. Dean of Students’ Welfare Rajeev Gupta, commenting on the lack of ST students, said that despite eff orts, stu dents from diff erent parts of the country chose diff erent universities and professional courses which might lead to lower numbers. With regard to the low levels of admission under the EWS category, he said that problems with ob taining income certifi cates and the fact that it is a new category is likely to have ef fected the turnout. 61% DU freshers from unreserved category About 3% admissions each under ST, EWS categories so far Sidharth Ravi New Delhi The BJP on Tuesday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal of “failing” to keep his promise to provide relief on fi xed electricity charges to the Capital’s residents and announced it would take up the matter at a public hear ing here. Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta said he would pre sent his petition on tariff s for 201718 and 201920 at a public hearing of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Com mission (DERC) scheduled to be held on Wednesday. “The Chief Minister on Sep tember 3, 2018, had assured that he would provide relief from the fi xed charges on electricity...but he failed to provide any relief,” Mr. Gup ta alleged. Subsequently, on June 2 this year, Mr. Kejriwal had claimed that the fi xed charge component of power tariff s was raised by the DERC last year “without consulting the Delhi govern ment” and again promised to provide relief on the fi xed charges, the BJP leader said. “But he has so far failed to provide any relief due to connivance with discoms. In the petition to the DERC, I will insist that the fi xed charges, power purchase adjustment charges [PPAC] and surcharge and pension trust surcharge must be im mediately rolled back,”he said. To present plea on tariff s at DERC meet Staff Reporter New Delhi CM failed to keep promise on power charges: BJP The BJP convened a meeting to discuss its strategy for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections at its State head quarters here on Monday. According to insiders, it was also an exercise in “reducing diff erences” between senior members of its local leadership. The meeting was chaired by national organisational secretary Ramlal. Detailed road map Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said a detailed road map re garding the party’s cam paign for the ensuing elec tions had been prepared, stress was laid on working in a united manner to unseat the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from power and ensure the formation of a BJP govern ment, party insiders claimed. “Some leaders who at tended the meeting, includ ing Mr. Tiwari, suggested that leaders should voice dif ferences within the party in stead of airing them through the media as was happen ing,” said a party source. In a video message re garding the meeting, Mr. Ti wari said, “We will work in a united way to bring back the BJP to power in Delhi.” According to sources, there was an agreement among the participants re garding the fact that it would be “diffi cult to defeat the AAP” if the entire leadership “is not on the same page ov er common issues”. Discuss strategy for Assembly polls Staff Reporter New Delhi BJP leaders call for unity within party With the release of the third cutoff list for meritbased undergraduate courses at Delhi University, colleges witnessed admission with drawals and new applica tions once again on Tuesday. Up to 2,732 admission cancellations took place on Tuesday alone, a university offi cial said. With several popular courses still open for admissions, including B.Com (Hons.) at Shri Ram College of Commerce under the unreserved category, openings under reserved ca tegories and several colleges reopening admissions as well, many students are still deciding where to pursue their higher education. Easy switch? Ishita Rana who had se cured admission at Jesus And Mary College under the second list decided to mi grate to Hansraj College af ter the release of the third list. “North Campus has more opportunities as it is sort of a closed campus with many colleges in the vicinity and hence, one can have more exposure on academic as well as extracurricular fronts,” she said. But an easy switch is not available to everyone. For Ishita Issac, for instance, who wanted to join St. Ste phen’s College because of which she didn’t apply to JMC under the fi rst list, col lege authorities refused to admit her under the third list as she exceeded the se cond cutoff . With no op tions left she has decided to take admission at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College. Fourth list on July 15 In North Campus, several students were making rounds of campuses trying to fi nd courses they were eligible for. Students applying to col leges under the third list are required to complete admis sion formalities by Thurs day. The fourth list will be released on July 15. A day after third cutoff list was released Nidhi Mishra New Delhi Withdrawals, fresh admissions continue Cutoff s for the meritbased undergraduate programmes at Ambedkar University Del hi were released on its web site on Tuesday. Steep diff erences The university, which is funded by the Delhi govern ment, extends 85% reserva tion for students from the National Capital Territory (NCT) while 15% seats are re served for others. This refl ects the steep dif ference in cutoff s for stu dents from Delhi under va rious categories The highest cutoff has been announced for 12 seats under the unreserved cate gory for B.A. (Honours) psy chology 98.5%, however, for students from NCT the cut off is 97.75%. One of the lowest cutoff s was off ered for B.A. in sus tainable urbanism at 85.5% for unreserved students from NCT and 90.50% for nonNCT students. While the university also extends reser vations under various consti tutionally mandated quotas, as in previous years, no seats are made available for stu dents outside of the NCT, un der the OBC category. Other courses off ered by AUD include B.A. (Honours) in economics, English, histo ry, sociology, psychology, and social science and hu manities at its Kashmere Gate Campus. The second campus in Ka rampura off ers B.A. in law and politics, social sciences and humanities and in sus tainable urbanism. The un iversity also off ers masters programmes in various disci plines. Six cutoff s Admissions under the fi rst cutoff will take place on Wednesday and Thursday and the next cutoff will be released on July 12. The un iversity is scheduled to re lease six cutoff s as of now. Ambedkar University releases fi rst cutoff list Staff Reporter New Delhi https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CITY Seven more persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Con gress leader Vikas Chaud hary last month, the police said on Tuesday. Four persons have been arrested earlier in this con nection and more arrests are likely, they said. The arrested have been identifi ed as Atul, Saurabh, Sunil alias Monu, Amardeep alias Honey, Dharamjeet, Naveen and Sooraj. While Atul, Saurabh, Mo nu and Honey were present outside the gym at the time of the murder, the remain ing three had provided shel ter and logistics to those who fi red shots at Chaud hary, said Faridabad Police Commissioner Sanjay Ku mar on Tuesday. Saurabh and Atul had al so carried out the recce of Chaudhary’s house and gym at the instance of one Sachin before the murder. Gangster Kaushal’s wife Roshni, his servant Naresh alias Chand, Harender and Manjesh were earlier arrest ed in this connection and the name of these seven ac cused had come up during their interrogation. Nabbed after a tipoff Crime Branch Sector 30 had got a tipoff after which a trap was laid on Tigaon Road and Saurabh and Atul were arrested. Two pistols and six cartridges were seized from them. The rest four were arrest ed by DLF Crime Branch team in Surajkund and their car was seized. Saurabh told the police that as per the plan they had reached outside the gym in two separate cars on June 27 morning. Five persons in a sedan parked their car outside the gym and two of them shot Chaudhary. They then sped off in the car which was dri ven by Sachin. They abandoned the car in Sector 76 and drove away in another car. Saurabh and his three as sociates, armed with wea pons, were seated in a car parked around 100 m away from the murder spot to give backup. Saurabh, Atul, Dharam jeet, Sunil and Naveen hold previous criminal record with cases of murder, rob bery, causing hurt and car rying illegal weapons regis tered against them, said Mr. Kumar. He added that ef forts were being made to ar rest the remaining accused. Chaudhary was hit by multiple bullets in Sector 9 at 9.30 a.m. when he came out of the gym. Sharp criticism The broaddaylight murder had evoked sharp criticism against the ruling BJPled government by Congress leaders. 7 more held for Cong. leader’s murder More arrests likely in the June 27 killing, say police; two pistols, car seized Special correspondent FARIDABAD The arrested persons in police custody. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Three days after a Central go vernment employee was found murdered at his resi dence, his wife and minor son along with an associate have been nabbed in connec tion with the case, the police said on Tuesday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (SouthEast) Chinmoy Biswal said the accused in cluded the victim’s wife, their 16yearold son and a neighbour, Rishabh (20). On July 6, at 5 a.m., the police received a PCR call re garding a murder after which they reached the spot and found the employee of Direc torate General of Audit Cen tral Expenditure lying dead with stab wounds on his back. During interrogation, his wife allegedly told the police that her husband used to come home by 7.30 p.m. but on the night of the incident, he came at 11.30 p.m. She al so said the doors of the house were open at the time. “She said she woke up at 3 a.m. to go to the washroom when she saw her husband lying dead and ₹ 1.5lakh was missing,” Mr. Biswal said. Motive behind murder During examination, the pol ice said there were contradic tions found in the versions of wife and her son. On sus tained questioning, Sunita confessed to the murder. “She said her husband was an alcoholic and used to ill treat her and children. She then along with her son con spired to kill him,” the DCP said. Promised ₹ 1.5 lakh The duo contacted the mi nor’s friend whom they pro mised to give ₹ 1.5 lakh if he helped. The friend then roped in Rishabh. “On the night of the inci dent when the victim re turned home drunk and slept off , his wife and their son sig naled the friend and Rishabh to enter the house. The duo then stabbed the victim to death while the motherson kept guard,” the offi cer said, adding that his wife had con cocted the story about the money to stage it like a rob bery. The police are conducting raids to arrest the minor’s friend. Another man held; one still on the run: police Staff Reporter New Delhi One of the accused, Rishabh. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Wife and son arrested for murder of govt. employee Two criminals have been ar rested for their alleged in volvements in several armed robberies here, the police said on Tuesday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (NorthEast) Atul Tha kur said both Saff an alias Af fan (23) and Chand (22) are from Uttar Pradesh’s Murad Nagar. “A countrymade pistol, six live cartridges, a stolen motorcycle and a robbed scooty, have been recovered from their possession,” the offi cer said. On Monday, the police said they received a tipoff regarding the robbers com ing to Jyoti Nagar after which a trap on Loni Road and the two were nabbed. During interrogation, the accused allegedly told the police about their involve ment in two recent armed robberies in which the CCTV footages had gone vi ral. The accused had robbed a businessman, Varun Behl, at gunpoint in the parking lot inside his house in the small hours of July 30. While fl eeing via Adarsh Nagar, the accused had also fi red at policemen who tried to stop them on account of suspicion. The accused had also allegedly robbed a che mist shop in Sarai Jullena on July 2 and fl ed with nearly ₹ 1 lakh. Modus operandi The accused used to take an autorickshaw from Murad nagar to secluded roads in Delhi where they would rob or steal twowheelers and use it further for committing armed robberies, the offi cer said. “They were earlier arrest ed and were released in May after which they regrouped in Bijnor and decided to commit robberies. They wear caps during the act and would head back to Mu radnagar after committing the crimes,” Mr. Thakur said. Saff an is a Class V pass out and used to earlier work in a bakery while Chand worked as a tailor. With their arrest, the police claim to have solved 18 cases of robbery so far. The police are looking for the accused’s third accom plice, who also has a pre vious criminal history. Two arrested for Model Town, New Friends Colony robberies Manhunt on for their accomplice; stolen items recovered Staff Reporter New Delhi The accused in police custody. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA A man has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to implicate three persons in a murder case as he wanted to reclaim a mortgaged pro perty from his distant rela tive, in southwest Delhi’s Sagarpur, the police said on Tuesday. ‘Marriage expenses’ Prakash hired three per sons to shoot at his mother to make it look like “an at tempt to murder”, they said. He also roped in his niece, Mohini, in the con spiracy by “promising to bear all expenses for her marriage if she helped”, the police added. On June 21, a PCR call was received that a woman was shot at outside a tem ple in Sagarpur. A team reached the spot and took the injured, Mahendri, to a nearby hospital. She had sustained a bul let injury in the stomach, the police said. “Mohini said she was with Mahendri during the incident and named three persons — Saman, Anil and Kuldeep — as accused,” said an offi cer. Mohini, who is also an eyewitness in a murder case of her paternal grand mother that happened in 2014 in Meerut, said the same accused tried to kill Mahendri. The three ac cused are out on bail now, the police said. During the investigation, the police scanned CCTV footage of the area and also sent a team to Meerut to check the whereabouts of three persons. In the footage, the sus pects seen did not match the descriptions of the three accused named by Mohini and the police got suspicious. “Even the mo bile location of all of them did not corroborate their presence in Delhi. We then questioned Mohini again,” the offi cer said. She confessed to her in volvement in the conspira cy hatched by her maternal uncle. Following this, Pra kash was nabbed and dur ing interrogation, he said he roped in his two broth ersinlaw and a man in the plan. In 2004, his parents had taken a loan against the agricultural land from a dis tant relative in Meerut for his marriage. When he wanted to get the land back, the two sides got into a fi ght and the three ac cused shot Prakash’s motherinlaw. False charges “He wanted to implicate the three accused of ‘at tempt to murder’ [of his mother] and then get them arrested. He wanted to blackmail them into releas ing the land,” said an offi c er. Deputy Commissioner of Police (SouthWest) De vender Arya said Prakash and three others have been arrested under sections of attempt to murder and planning a conspiracy. Mo hini has turned an approv er, he added. Accused wanted to reclaim mortgaged property: police SAURABH TRIVEDI New Delhi Man arrested for plotting attack on mother to blackmail relative Man held for creating fake govt. identity NEW DELHI A 21-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly creating fake ID of Pay and Accounts Officer in the government’s Public Financial Management System. DCP (Cyber Crime) Anyesh Roy said Noor Mohd Ali pretended to be one Lalit Dagar and claimed to be the newly appointed Pay and Accounts Officer. He had requested for approval from the concerned department but after scrutiny by the Accounts Department, no such person was found. IN BRIEF HC curb on online shopping sites NEW DELHI The Delhi HC has restrained e-commerce companies from selling health and beauty products of direct sellers, Amway, Modicare and Oriflame, without their consent. It gave the interim order on the pleas of these three sellers alleging that products under their brands were being sold on the e- commerce platforms at cheaper rates. A 23yearold man died af ter allegedly jumping off the fi fth fl oor of Saket court in south Delhi on Tuesday, the police said. He was arrested on Monday in connection with his involvement in two cases of snatching. He was taken on oneday re mand which expired on Tuesday, the police said. The incident was re ported at 4.36 p.m. inside the court premises when he was being produced in room number 508 by an investigation offi cer and two constables, said De puty Commissioner of Police (South) Vijay Ku mar. He was rushed to the AIIMS Trauma Centre where he was declared brought dead. Suicide prevention hel- pline: Sanjivni, Society for Mental Health, Telephone: 011-4076 9002, Monday- Saturday, 10 a.m. -7.30 p.m. Accused jumps from fi fth fl oor of court, dies Staff Reporter New Delhi Two persons, including an auto driver, were killed and three passengers in jured when the autorick shaw rammed a stationary vehicle on an outer road in Jahangirpuri on Tuesday. It seems that the auto driver, Sukhvinder, lost balance as he had dozed off , the police said. There was no alcohol found in the driver’s body. After the police reached the spot, they rescued the injured persons and rushed them to a hospital. One passenger, Rahul, was declared brought dead. “The three other pas sengers have received se rious injuries but their condition is stable,” said a police offi cer. He confi rmed that a case under Indian Penal Code sections of rash driv ing and the fatal accident has been registered at Ja hangirpuri police station. Auto driver, passenger killed in accident STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams A ND-NDE CITY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 4 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined a plea seeking direction to the Centre to frame guidelines for registration of FIR for marital rape and laws to make it a ground for divorce. A Bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari Shankar said the court can not direct the government to frame laws as it is the do main of the legislature and not the judiciary. It said the issue of marital rape has to be dealt by the legislature and not the judiciary. The High Court was hear ing a plea fi led by advocate Anuja Kapur who also sought that there should be a clear guideline for registra tion of cases related to mari tal rape under framed guide lines and laws, so that accountability, responsibili ty and liability of the author ities concerned can be fi xed. Earlier, the Supreme Court had refused to enter tain a petition fi led by Ms. Kapur on the issue, and asked her to approach the High Court for relief. “As marital rape is not a ground for a divorce in Hin du Marriage Act, 1955, Mus lim Personal Law [Shariat] Application Act, 1937 and Special Marriage Act, 1954, it cannot be used as a ground for divorce and cruelty against husband,” her plea had said. Petitioner’s contention She contended that there was a lot of confusion over the law under which an FIR or case related to marital rape can be registered. “There should be a clear guideline for registration of the case of marital rape un der framed guidelines and laws,” the plea said. Ms. Kapur said since mar ital rape is not a crime, there is no FIR registered by a wife against her husband, rather, it is being compromised by the police “to maintain the sanctity of the marriage bet ween the victim and her husband”. Cites survey report Her plea also cited a report of National Family Health Survey which said that nine out of every 100 men across India agreed that a husband is justifi ed in beating his wife if she refuses to have sex with him. “The survey also reported that 15 out of every 100 men in India do not agree to the fact that a wife is justifi ed in refusing to have sex with her husband when she is tired or not in the mood,” the plea said. “Five out of every 100 women in India reported that their husband had phys ically forced them to have sexual intercourse with him even when they didn’t want it,” she added. Judiciary can’t direct govt. to frame laws on marital rape: HC Court rejects petition seeking guidelines to m