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Two-pronged strategy to tackle Maoists urged
UP inspector ‘hired’ contract killers to shoot Class 8 boy
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Season’s first rains disrupt rail, road traffic in Mumbai
Modi urges Advani to withdraw resignation
Advani: BJP no longer the 'same idealistic party'
Verdict on Salman’s plea put off to June 24
Admit card with Obama’s picture!
Sreesanth, Ankeet, 17 others get bail
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Two-pronged strategy to tackle Maoists urged
New Delhi, June 10 “We are considering strong action against Maoists, all parties have asked to take strongest action”, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said after a meeting of political parties called by the Prime Minister on the issue in the backdrop of the May 25 CPI (Maoist) attack on Congress leaders and security forces in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. The meeting adopted a resolution suggesting that “The state governments as well as the Central Government should adopt the two-pronged strategy of sustained operations to clear the areas of Maoist influence and pursue the objectives of effective governance and rapid development. We urge them to use all legitimate means to defend the security of the country and its institutions and quell armed insurgency and violence”. CPM leader Basudeb Acharia told TNS that BJP leaders had a word of praise for former Home Minister P Chidambaram for his policy in dealing with Left Wing extremism and wanted the Government to eliminate the Naxalites/Maoists operating in various districts. BJD chief and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wanted the security forces to flush them out. Acharia said tackling the problem through security forces was not the right approach since both the Centre and the state Governments would have to find out why tribal people were supporting the Naxalites and feeling exploited and deprived. “Today mining has been opened to multi-national corporations who are minting money while the tribals continue to suffer”, he said. Aware of the sensitivity, through a resolution adopted at the meeting, parties appealed to the youth of the affected states to abjure violence and pursue their goals through legitimate and democratic means while assuring them that the governments will be sensitive to their concerns and redress any sense of alienation and injustices of the past. In the resolution, the parties described the May 25 incident as an attack on democracy, freedom and free speech and expression stating that “Nothing can be more dangerous to our Republic than the insurgency of the CPI(Maoist) in the pursuit of its misguided goal of overthrowing Parliamentary democracy and the Constitution of India through violent means. The Indian state cannot, and will not, accept the pernicious Maoist doctrine. The CPI(Maoist) must give up the path of violence and destruction. On this, there can be no compromise”. Earlier, in his opening address, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the strength and robustness of the democratic forces in the country would suffer if the space for political activity gets restricted because of fear or terror. Therefore, “It would not be wrong to say that the Chhattisgarh attack is a frontal assault on the democratic foundations of our nation”. At the same time, he said the Centre is following a twin-pronged strategy to deal with Left Wing extremism through operations against Maoists and addressing development and governance issues in the areas affected by it. “We believe that there is a need to further fine tune and strengthen this strategy. We have already started work in this direction.”
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UP inspector ‘hired’ contract killers to shoot Class 8 boy
Lucknow, June 10 Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) J Ravinder Gaur said the inspector is now on the run, but the sharp shooters he had hired for killing the 14-year-old Maaz have been arrested. Based on telephone surveillance, the two sharp shooters, Ajeet Rai and Rahul Rai, were found and arrested from Digviniya village in Azamgarh, about 270 km from the state capital, early Sunday. The two have confessed that inspector Sanjay Rai had contracted them for killing Maaz, and had paid them Rs 2.5 lakh for the job. Gaur said that Sanjay Rai, posted at the anti-human trafficking cell of the city police, had fallen in love with the cousin of Maaz. The woman Rai had fallen in love with was a trainee with the UP Police. She had allegedly spurned Rai's advances. Enraged, Rai sought revenge on the woman's family. The police said Rai had hoped to implicate a frequent guest at the house of the woman, a man named Akmal, in the killing of the teenaged boy. Akmal was considered the woman's suitor. Soon after the killing, the sharp shooters slipped out of Lucknow and holed up in Azamgarh. The police is now on a look-out for the inspector, a man who, in 12 years of service, had an unblemished service record. A probe has been ordered into the matter and circle officer of Ghazipur, Vishal Pandey, would head the probe team. — IANS
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Season’s first rains disrupt rail, road traffic in Mumbai
Mumbai , June 10 The very first rains of this year inundated roads and the city's arterial train lines and left low-lying areas water-logged. According to officials of both the Central and Western Railways, trains on the suburban lines were slowly plying as per schedule as flood waters at a number of points on the tracks receded. "Most of our services are running normally," a Central Railway spokesman said. In the morning, office-goers rushing to begin their work week faced traumatic moments after several services on both the Western and Central lines were cancelled or combined. Commuters complained on social networking sites that tracks were flooded and trains were not moving at all, as motormen could not see their way ahead. According to the disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation monitoring the situation round-the-clock, low-lying areas such as Worli, Lower Parel, Hindmata, Dadar, Matunga, Sion, King's Circle, Kurla and Ghatkopar in central Mumbai were flooded. Water logging was also reported from Bandra, Mahim, Santacruz, Ville Parle, Andheri and Goregaon in the Western suburbs. The met office said the suburbs of Mumbai received record rainfall. Its weather station at Santacruz recorded 181.1 mm rainfall for the 24-hour period ending 8.30 am today, the third highest rainfall in 10 years. Photographs shot by commuters and circulated on Twitter showed Dadar station packed with stranded commuters. However, railway officials and police said there were no casualties so far. The road leading to the Bandra-Worli sea link was packed with cars, which slowed down due to obstructions on both sides, causing traffic to move at a snail's pace on the facility. In Thane, two children, aged around 10 were washed away, allegedly in the flash floods in a nullah here today following heavy rains, the police said. Ragpickers Kallu S Rathod and Geeta Thakur Rathod from Mumbra went missing after the area was inundated causing the nullah to overflow, they said. In another rain-related incident, at least a dozen vehicles were damaged when a compound wall of a housing complex crashed on them this morning, police said. (With PTI inputs)
Cargo carrier’s crew rescued
Crew members of cargo carrier MV Shri Jayate were rescued after the vessel reported engine failure off the Ratnagiri coast in Maharashtra. According to the police control room, 10 crew members sent out an SOS as the vessel was buffeted by heavy monsoon winds. The vessel was veering dangerously close to land and it was feared that it would run aground. The ship was built near Mumbai and was being delivered to a company
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Modi urges Advani to withdraw resignation
Ahmedabad, June 10 Modi, who remained busy with his routine engagements in Gandhinagar, including attending the swearing-in ceremony of four newly elected BJP MLAs, showed no signs of distress due to Advani’s resignation. In his tweet, he said he had spoken to Advani over the phone and requested him to withdraw his resignation. “Hope he will not disappoint the party workers,” he said. Modi said he would not attend the party’s parliamentary board meeting convened in Delhi tonight in the wake of Advani’s resignation and said the decision taken by the board would be acceptable to him. Former Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, who along with another former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel played a key role in raising the party from scratch in Gujarat, said Advani was the “victim of his own misdeeds” and was paying for protecting Modi and saving him from being asked to resign as the Chief Minister over the 2002 Gujarat riots. “Shockingly, it took such a long time for Advani to realise who Modi was. What I knew in 1995 has been realised by Advani in 2013,” he said. Vaghela, who was forced to quit the BJP due to Modi and later joined the Congress, said Advani had been “bitten by the same snake he had reared all these years”. It was bound to happen when you make a person larger than the party, he said. Another former chief minister and BJP leader Suresh Mehta echoed similar sentiments. The Gujarat Parivartan Party, the breakaway group of the BJP formed by anti-Modi forces led by Keshubhai Patel, also cautioned the central BJP leadership to learn a lesson from Advani’s “fate”.
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Advani: BJP no longer the 'same idealistic party'
New Delhi, June 10 Advani, who yesterday had tried to draw a parallel between himself and ‘Bhishma
Pitamah’, the patriarch of the Kauravas and the Pandavas, said, "All my life I have found working for the Jana Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party, a matter of great pride and endless satisfaction for myself". After finding fault with the way the party was being run now, he concluded the letter saying, "I have decided, therefore, to resign from the three main fora of the party, namely, the national executive, the parliamentary board and the election committee. This may be regarded as my resignation letter," he said.
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Verdict on Salman’s plea put off to June 24
Mumbai, June 10 Khan had appealed against the magistrate’s order directing a retrial of the case under the stringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The arguments in the case concluded in early May, and Khan's lawyer Ashok Mundargi had contended that the lower court's order was "erroneous, bad in law and contrary to evidence on record". The fresh charge, under Section 304 (III) of the IPC, would attract a maximum jail term of 10 years. Earlier, Khan had been tried under the less severe Section 304A of IPC, relating to causing death by negligence, which stipulates a maximum two years in jail. — PTI
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Admit card with Obama’s picture!
Jaipur, June 10 Lalu Ram Meena (40) was taken aback when he opened the letter which came by ordinary post to him on June 8 for the exam the next day for which he had never applied. The card is duly signed by the authority with seal. It has a roll number, 2201000509 , and the examination centre was mentioned as being near Tuglakabad metro station in Badarpur. The exam was for Part B electrical, in general engineering, conducted by central government’s Staff Selection Commission. “I was shocked to see the admit card in my name because I never applied for such a post. “What was more shocking for me was the picture of US President Barack Obama as the candidate in the admit card,” Ram said. “There is a signature below the picture of Obama but that is not my signature,” he said. Date of birth of the candidate mentioned in the admit card is 05-10-1987 while his date of birth is 01-01-1973. He is an Arts graduate who has done his B.Ed and is now running the school in Rambas village in Dausa. — PTI
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Sreesanth, Ankeet, 17 others get bail
New Delhi, June 10
“There is no reason for believing that the accused are guilty under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) at this stage,” Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna said. The court said there is prima facie “no sufficient material” against the accused to establish their “nexus” with organised crime syndicate. Besides the two cricketers, the court also granted the relief to 17 other accused, including 14 bookies, on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of the like amount. “There are allegations of betting by bookies and fixing by players for benefiting the syndicate. “After probing the matter deeply and going into the materials placed before the court, this court finds that there is no sufficient material on record to establish that there is a nexus of accused with the organised crime syndicate,” the judge said. The Delhi Police has so far arrested 26 persons, including Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila - in connection with the case. Chandila and six others have not yet applied for bail. — PTI
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Chennai hotelier arrested
Chennai, June 10 CB-CID Deputy Superintendent of Police Venkataraman said preliminary inquiry revealed that Aggarwal was closely associated with bookie Uttam C Jain, alias Kitty, who had already been arrested in the betting racket. “Kitty was utilising a room in Hotel Radisson Blu for betting in IPL matches. In addition, Aggarwal was also into gambling,” he claimed. Venkataraman elaborating on the reasons that prompted the agency to arrest Aggarwal said the accused had confessed to having information on pitch conditions and other details on IPL matches. Aggarwal had made hundreds of calls using some mobile phones, the ownership of which was being probed, prompting the CB-CID to arrest him, he said. His two hotels in Chennai were earlier raided after his alleged links with bookies came to light. — PTI
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Heavy and incessant rains overnight and early this morning have thrown normal life out of gear in the metropolis, as rail and road traffic was disrupted inconveniencing lakhs of office-goers.
