Thursday, September 2, 1999

Cong lambasts BJP’s stand
RINGUS (Rajasthan), Sept 1 — Two days after Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee promised reservation and other backward classes (OBC) status to Jats, Bishnois, Meos and Kayamkhanis in his speech at Sikar, the Congress today fielded its Uttar Pradesh ally, Mr Ajit Singh, Rajasthan stalwart, Mr Ram Niwas Mirdha, and the candidate from Sikar, Mr Balram Jakhar, to lambast the ruling party’s stand at a well-attended public meeting in this tehsil town, 50 km south of Mr Vajpayee’s rally venue.

‘Sonia’s comments helped Pak’
NAGPUR, Sept 1 — BJP President Kushabhau Thakre today charged Congress chief Sonia Gandhi with making statements during the Kargil conflict that were detrimental to the interests of the country.

Phase II of AIDS project cleared
NEW DELHI, Sep 1 — The second phase of the National AIDS Control Programme with an outlay of Rs 1425 crore has been approved by the Union Cabinet. The first phase of the programme is said to have concluded in March.

Jawan petitions NHRC on dismissal
CALCUTTA, Sept 1 — The man in the uniform could hardly realise that seeking a politician’s intervention to influence his bosses for a favourable transfer would cost him his job.

ISI steps up arms, RDX flow
From R. Suryamurthy
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, Sept 1 — Stung by reversals suffered by it in Kargil, the ISI has been despatching large quantities of RDX, arms and ammunition and drugs along the porous borders of India and Pakistan especially through the Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

As per Intelligence reports Pakistan has intensified the use of the gaps along the Indian borders for its nefarious activities.

The porous border along Punjab, J&K, Rajasthan and Gujarat provide a safe passage for smuggling RDX, drugs and weapons into the country, a senior Delhi Police official told The Tribune today.

India’s success in Operation Vijay has made the militant groups desperate and they have intensified their operations by smuggling arms and ammunition, the police official said, adding that “the militants want to create disturbance during elections and please their masters in Pakistan.”

The Delhi Police has recovered 65 kg of RDX during the past two weeks with the arrest of a militant belonging to the Khalistan Commando Force and Kashmiris affiliated to the Harkat-ul-Ansar group.

“Most of the RDX and the arms are brought into the country by arms smugglers living in the border areas. The smugglers, who are mostly residents of these villages, apart from smuggling drugs, arms and ammunitions for money also act as informers for the security forces, apart from sumggling drugs, arms and ammunition,” the police official said.

“The rates charged by these arms smugglers depend on the risk factor and the quantum of punishment they would be subjected to if caught,” the official said.

“While a courier might charge about Rs 25,000 for picking up 10 kg of RDX and dumping it in a safe pre-identified place, they might charge the same amount for 1 kg of heroin. However, the rate for dumping arms and ammunition is much less as the offender can be granted bail,” he said.

Explaining the strategy adopted by these smugglers, the senior official said the consignment was hidden near the border by their counterparts and was “picked up” and dumped at a pre-designated location.

“Whichever militant group may be active, it is these couriers who bring the consignment from across the border. Some of the border villages in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Gujarat are actively involved in the smuggling activities and arms and ammunition are just another item for them,” he said.

Though smuggling across India-Pakistan border along Punjab has reduced after fencing, it has not completely stopped. Nepal has now emerged as a major entry point for contraband and arms and ammunition into the country.

The three KCF militants, Bakshish Singh, alias Baba, Dilbagh Singh, alias Bagha and their Pakistani associate Charanjit Singh alias Sukha were arrested recently by the police and 50 kg of RDX was recovered from them. Charanjeet Singh is a right hand man of Paramjit Singh Lahore-based KCF chief.

The Delhi Police had seized 50 Kg RDX, arms and ammunition from the militants. The items were concealed inside fuel tanks of cars, moulded inside pens, cigarette packs, letters, dolls and soft toys. The RDX was brought into the country from Faridkot district.

Another 10.65 kg of RDX was recovered from a Harkat-ul-Ansar militant Mohd Akbar Bhatt, who was the operations commander of the group in Doda, Anantnag and Srinagar.

In the Capital the Khalistan Commando Force, Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan International Force and Khalistan Zindabad Force are active. Among the Kashmiri militant groups Lashkar-e-Toiba, Harkat-ul-Ansar, Hizbul-Mujahideen and the Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front, are active in Delhi.

“As these groups do not have any hideout, it is very difficult to keep tab on their activities. They come and reside in the areas where there is a concentration of Kashmiri or Punjabi population,” the official said.

“The militants strike in the Capital and return to places in Haryana like Panipat, Jind, Kurukshetra,” he said.

One of the first major explosions in which RDX was used in the Capital was in Sadar Bazar in January 1994, another was used in 1996 at Central Market in Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi. Besides, RDX was used in a bus explosion at ISBT in July 1998, Holambi Kalan in April 1999 and in Chandni Chowk.

Cong plea to EC
Tribune News Service

NEW DELHI, Sept 1 — The Congress today asked the Election Commission to take cognisance of "the BJP’s attempt to communalise the armed forces" which is a blatant violation of the poll code of conduct.

In a statement, the Congress spokesman, Mr Kapil Sibal, said "the BJP is galvanising serving jawans to garner votes for its candidate" in the Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency of Haryana.

"The BJP propoganda machinery has crossed all limits of decency and openly flouted the election code of conduct in the Mahendragarh Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana from where Ms Sudha Yadav, a Kargil widow, is the party’s candidate", Mr Sibal said.

Serving soldiers from villages in the constituency, including Panchgaon in Gurgaon district, are making a desperate and devious bid to garner votes for the party, the Congress spokesman said.

"This has been going on despite several journalists writing about the exercise and lodging formal complaints with the Indian Army", Mr Sibal pointed out.

Giving details, Mr Sibal said the BJP poll managers here "recreate Kargil" on the campaign dias-barren snow peaks and a deadly operation against the enemy.

"The widow sits quietly in a corner.Then the jawans — Mukat Singh and Vijay Pal — who have served in the Kargil sector are called on the stage. They introduce themselves as Kargil heroes. As the crescendo builds up, the first jawan exhorts: "There was no intelligence failure. Only Vajpayee can guard our homes. Vote for the Lotus. Vote for a party that will make your homes secure, the nation secure."

Then the other soldier goes on: "The opposition parties are talking about intelligence failure to belittle Vajpayee. I was there. I know. There was no intelligence failure. Vote for the Lotus".

Mr Sibal said the Congress felt that such an exercise was a "gross attempt to communalise the armed forces who have always cherished and maintained their apolitical ethos and neutral traditions".

Mahajan influencing media: Cong
Tribune News Service

NEW DELHI, Sept 1 — The Congress today alleged the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Mr Pramod Mahajan, was trying to influence the media, saying, "the BJP is out to destroy the freedom of the Press".

"Attempts at influencing the media and through it the results of the coming elections make Mr Mahajan stand head and shoulders above lesser mortals who have held this position in the past", the Congress spokesman, Mr Kapil Sibal, said here.

Accusing the BJP of tampering with the freedom of the Press and forcing mediapersons to go back on reportage, Mr Sibal said all these moves reflected the fascist character of the ruling party.

"Never before in the history of free India have we had a minister pressurising a reporter to change his statement", he said referring to the Mumbai-based correspondent of a Delhi daily going back on his report on Mr Mahajan’s statement on the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi.

Mr Mahajan’s denial of his statement had exposed the BJP mindset of women. "At one point in the press conference he (Mahajan) was quoted as saying that at no point did I equate Soniaji with Monicaji", Mr Sibal pointed out.

"The extraordinary way and unprecedented hurry in which the 24-hour DD news channel was launched in the teeth of opposition, despite reservations from the Prasar Bharati, is eloquent testimony of his disregard for fair play", Mr Sibal said.

"The nature of lucrative contracts awarded, the format of the programmes, the content of the programmes, the content of the news and views propagated therein and an overemphasis on the cult figure have been done for a singular intent and purpose", the Congress spokesperson said adding that "for short-term gains the BJP-Mahajan mindset cannot be allowed to destory long-tested institutions".

"Is it fair for a news channel to have experts who are BJP sympathisers", he asked.

Appealing to the media for saving the freedom of the Press, Mr Sibal said: "The Fourth Estate is the torchbearer of democracy. It has a right to free and fair opinion. It is the Fourth Estate that can combat such insidious intrusions not only to protect itself but also for the defence of democracy".

"The issue is not an ephemeral victory but permanent institutional demise", he asserted adding that "the BJP is out to destroy the freedom of the Press".

Pointing out that the BJP-led government had not even got the name of the Principal Information Officer cleared from the Cabinet Committee for Appointments, who had been functioning on an ad hoc basis since December last year, Mr Sibal alleged that "Mahajan media centre, which functions from 7, Safdarjung Road, has taken over duties that the Press Information Bureau should discharge in the normal course".

Charging the BJP for using all possible means, including governmental and technical ones, to extract electoral advantage, Mr Sibal said "a certain OSD in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is in charge of the Unconventional Actions Department".

Mr Sibal alleged that the RSS was trying to pressurise the media for not accepting advertisements from a certain NGO.

"The RSS effort to gag the publication of advertisements, in public interest and in the interest of secularism, betrays the double standards of the organisations that back the BJP", he said.

Mr Sibal said the Congress would order an in-house inquiry into leakage of its advertisement campaign to the BJP. The government machinery was pressed into service to indulge in such nefarious activities, he said, adding that the BJP managed to bring a rejoinder even before the Congress advertisements reached newspapers.

Taking strong exception to the manner in which a series of poll surveys projecting the BJP’s return to power are published, Mr Sibal said the basic material of the survey should be made available for scrutiny.

Remarks in bad taste: PM
From K.V. Prasad
Tribune News Service

HYDERABAD, Sept 1 — With the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress campaigners slugging it out on the personal level, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, today expressed anguish at the “character assassination” and said he hoped to see an end to “this kind of tasteless campaigning”.

Addressing a press conference at Raj Bhavan this morning, ahead of his scheduled visit to Bellary parliamentary constituency, Mr Vajpayee appeared pained at the remarks of the AICC general secretary, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, on the Prime Minister’s personal life.

Mr Vajpayee said having been in the Opposition for four decades he had interacted closely with Congress party leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and despite political differences with them not once did he indulge in “character assassination”.

“What the Congress general secretary and other campaigners are now saying makes me wonder if this party has any residual relationship left with the Congress of yesteryears”, Mr Vajpayee said.

His remarks came in response to an interview of Mr Azad to Eenadu Television where he had cast aspersions on the character of Mr Vajpayee.

In an obvious reference to Mr Pramod Mahajan equating Mrs Sonia Gandhi with the US White House intern Monica Lewinsky earlier, the Prime Minister said that when some of his colleagues said something which was “construed to be undignified” he had quickly expressed displeasure.

“I have repeatedly stated even in my election meetings that all of us in the National Democratic Alliance, the Congress and others in the poll fray need to maintain high standards of electioneering keeping in mind our great democracy. I hope to see an end to this kind of tasteless campaigning”, he said.

Mr Azad’s remarks came a day after the Election Commission had appealed to all parties to desist from making personal charges against opponents in the run up to the poll.

The Prime Minister also denied the Congress charge on sugargate, stating that sugar had been put under the Open General Licence and any one was free to import it. He defended the decision to import on the grounds that the government had the responsibility to hold the price line.

On charges that the government and senior military officials had ignored warnings on the Kargil intrusion, a charge made by the Congress on the basis of some documents the party had access to, the Prime Minister said the documents had to be verified.

“These documents have not yet been verified. If the original documents are produced, we will react to them”, Mr Vajpayee said and defended prefacing his election speeches by paying homage to the martyrs of Kargil.

In another statement, Mr Vajpayee also asked the Congress to come out clear on its stand on coalitions so that the people know what was the viewpoint of the party before people exercise their franchise.

“What further confirms the arrogant and authoritarian character of the Congress is its aversion to forming a coalition government at the Centre. The mutually contradictory statements of the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, have failed to enlighten the electorate about her party’s stand on coalitions. The Congress party’s approach to its allies is: “We need you to topple the BJP-led government, but we don’t need you to share power with us” Mr Vajpayee said.

Karan Singh campaigns for Cong
Tribune News Service

NEW DELHI, Sept 1 — After the intellectuals, artists and economists campaigned for the former Union Finance Minister and Congress candiate for the South Delhi parliamentary seat, Dr Manmohan Singh, it was the turn of the former Sadr-e-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Karan Singh, to pitch in.

Addressing street corner meetings in the parliamentary constituency, the former Union Minister, Dr Karan Singh, stopped short of appealing to voters to support Dr Manmohan Singh.

The electorate must cast their vote for a party which can provide stable government, Dr Karan Singh, who returned to the Congress after 18 years, said.

The former Union Finance Minister has been getting the support of people from different walks of life like art, culture, literature, and academics irrespective of their own ideological differences with the Congress.

Dr Karan Singh addressed a street corner meeting at the DESU Colony in Janakpuri and other areas of South Delhi after district-level leaders of the Congress made such a request to the well-known scholar of Upanishads.

In a short and crisp speech lasting for about 15 minutes in Sanskritised Hindi, Dr Karan Singh appealed to the voters to cast their vote in favour of that party which could provide “sashakt suraksha, sampoorna vikas” (stability, security and total development).

“Only the Congress has a track record of providing stable government,” Dr Karan Singh said, adding “The Opposition has given you seven Prime Ministers in as many years.”

On the security question, the former Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, said “in Kargil either it is intelligence failure or administrative failure. If the intelligence agencies had the information and they had passed it on, then it is the failure of the government to act on it. The nation wants to know the truth. Not from the commission appointed by the BJP government as the country does not have faith in them.”

“In a country where a class IV employee cannot be removed without giving due opportunity to defend his case, the Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, by sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, has set a dangerous precedent, which would threaten the security of the country,” Dr Karan Singh said.

The real issues before the nation are education, poverty evadication, water, power and health. The electorate should study the manifestoes of the political parties before exercising their franchise, he said.

Referring to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliances’s manifesto stating to debar persons of foreign origin from holding high offices, Dr Karan Singh said “the move is racial and discriminatory.”

The only time the former Union Minister mentioned the name of Dr Manmohan Singh was to state that the former Union Minister was the candidate from the area and he had to rush to other street corner meetings to address in support of the South Delhi candidate.

Contrary to Dr Karan Singh’s approach, the local leaders had coined songs eulogising the “messiah” of economic liberalisation and his intellectual calibre. Addressing the Congress candidate as “Dr Singh”, the local leaders compared the former Finance Minister’s contribution to academics and the nation to that of the rival BJP candidate, Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra.

The audience, mainly comprising employees of the Delhi Vidyut Board, were overjoyed the moment Dr Manmohan Singh arrived to address the gathering. The foot-tapping music with songs in praise of Dr Manmohan Singh mesmerised the audience with an impromptu performance of Bhangra by some.

Cong lambasts BJP’s stand
From Shubhabrata Bhattacharya
Tribune News Service

RINGUS (Rajasthan), Sept 1 — Two days after Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee promised reservation and other backward classes (OBC) status to Jats, Bishnois, Meos and Kayamkhanis in his speech at Sikar, the Congress today fielded its Uttar Pradesh ally, Mr Ajit Singh, Rajasthan stalwart, Mr Ram Niwas Mirdha, and the candidate from Sikar, Mr Balram Jakhar, to lambast the ruling party’s stand at a well-attended public meeting in this tehsil town, 50 km south of Mr Vajpayee’s rally venue.

Reservation and OBC status for Jats has become an emotive issue in this election. The Jat Mahasabha and its allied organisation, the Aarakshan Samyukta Sangharsh Samiti, at a meeting held in Sikar a day before Mr Vajpayee’s rally, had declared that Jats will “ensure the defeat of Congress candidates”. Though the announcement was not made personally by the agitating Jat leader, Mr Gyan Prakash Pilania, a retired Director-General of Police (he allowed district unit chiefs to speak amid pandemonium, the dias was attacked by those opposed to the move, the microphone was snatched), the signal to the Jat community, traditional Congress voters since 1952, has caused concern in the Congress camp. Today’s meeting was an attempt to defuse the gains of the BJP.

Mr Ajit Singh, whose party is contesting eight seats in Uttar Pradesh in a tie-up with the Congress, was fielded as the star performer. By doing so, the Congress attempted to resurrect the image of Chaudhary Charan Singh. Mr Mirdha, who spoke after Mr Ajit Singh, referred to him as “distinguished son of a great father”. Mr Ajit Singh, referring to the assurance given by Mrs Sonia Gandhi in her tour of the state that the commitment made in 1993 and 1998 state election manifestos by the Congress on this issue will be honoured, asked the audience, “whom would you trust — Sonia, who has recently come into public life and has a clean record or Mr Vajpayee, who his own party’s Govindacharya refers to as a “Mukhouta” (mask)?

Referring to the BJP not raising the Ram temple issue after it came to power and the recent controversy on contentious issues like the Ram temple and the common civil code being put on the backburner in the National Democratic Alliance’s agenda, while BJP leaders still referred to them, Mr Ajit Singh said, “Did Mr Vajpayee consult Mr L.K. Advani, Rajju Bhaiyya (RSS chief) and Mr Kushabhau Thakre before he spoke? They will overrule him”. In an assertive tone he said, “Has Sonia ever told you a lie? Yeh BJP waale kahte kuchh hain, karte kuchh aur”. He said he had spoken to Mrs Gandhi and was convinced about her sincerity on the issue.

Mr Mirdha openly lambasted the Jat Mahasabha of being a “BJP front”. Jats, the farmers, have traditionally been opposed to the Rajputs in this state over centuries. The reason for the acrimony is that Rajputs have been the “Thikanedars”, who have collected revenue from Jat farmers in this drought-stricken region. The Ramrajya Parishad, the Swatantra Party and the erstwhile Jana Sangh had the support of the erstwhile maharajas and thikanedars. Mr Mirdha, therefore, reminded the audience today that some of the faces seen in the Jat Mahasabha had been with the Swatantra Party and the Ramrajya Parishad in the past.

Kargil is an emotive issue in Sikar district because 16 Jat jawans from here have laid down their lives. Local minister Deependra Shekhawat, who was present at the funeral of each of these martyrs said while the families were proud of the martyrs, they all asked “Mera beta mara kyon (why did my sone die?)”.

Mr Ajit Singh, referring to the recent charge about purchase of sugar from Pakistan, said while Pakistanis were building bunkers in Kargil, betraying the interest of Indian farmer, oblivious of the bumper crop of sugarcane and surplus previous stocks of sugar in the godowns, the Vajpayee government and its minister, Mr Surjit Singh Barnala, bought sugar from Pakistan and filled the coffers of the Pakistani ISI. “This is a classic case of betrayal of the slogan “Jai jawan, jai kisan”, Mr Ajit Singh emphasised.

Mr Jakhar recalled his trip to Kargil as the head of a party delegation and said that when a day later Mr Vajpayee went there Pakistanis targeted the venue of his meeting with their shells and the Prime Minister had to choose another place. Echoing Mr Ajit Singh’s query, as to whether the Kargil battle was won by India’s jawans or RSS volunteers, Mr Jakhar came up with an impromptu poem:

De kar bhashan achchhe achchhe,
marwa diye ghar ke bachche,
apne is ghar mein bambari
wah-re-wah Atal Behari.

Today’s meeting was crucial for the Congress. The Jats are a divided lot. While they do not want to abandon the Congress vote bank all of a sudden, the call of the mahasabha has created a dilemma, especially for the youth. Thus, reservation and Kargil have emerged as twin emotive issues in Rajasthan’s constituencies where Jat votes matter.

‘Sonia’s comments helped Pak’

NAGPUR, Sept 1 (PTI, UNI) — BJP President Kushabhau Thakre today charged Congress chief Sonia Gandhi with making statements during the Kargil conflict that were detrimental to the interests of the country.

“Even as we were fighting the Pakistani-backed intrusion in the Kargil sector, Mrs Sonia Gahdhi was making statements against us which helped Pakistan and demoralised our Army. These were widely quoted in the Pakistani Press to create the impression that India was wrong and at the losing end”, he told a press conference here.

He expressed surprise at Mrs Sonia Ghandi’s statement that the BJP campaign denigrated women and asked “if they were so concerned about women, why did they stall the Women’s Reservation Bill?”.

Mr Thakre denied that there was anything wrong in what Defence Minister George Fernandes had said about Mrs Sonia Gandhi and alleged that it was the Congress which was spreading disinformation by saying the BJP was responsible for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

He said he wanted an end to all such unsavoury statements from both sides and said electioneering should be conducted with decorum and without bitterness. “After all, we are not enemies but only political rivals”, he said, adding he had instructed his partymen to refrain from making derogatory remarks and personal attacks.

The BJP president said the Congress claim of giving a stable government was bogus looking to its track record of destabilising elected governments. In the same breath, he, in reply to a question, justified the pulling down of the V.P. Singh government by his party in 1989.

Phase II of AIDS project cleared
Tribune News Service

NEW DELHI, Sep 1 — The second phase of the National AIDS Control Programme with an outlay of Rs 1425 crore has been approved by the Union Cabinet. The first phase of the programme is said to have concluded in March.

Announcing this here on Wednesday, the Director, National AIDS Control Organisation and Additional Secretary in the Union Ministry of Health, Mr J.V.R. Prasada Rao said, “The programme formulated after intense talks with State governments, non-government organisations and members of the civil society would be executed with the cooperation of three external partners, namely the International Development Association of the World Bank, the USAID and the Department for International Development of the UK.”

All three agencies have worked in the area of AIDS prevention and control in India.

Mr Rao said the project was approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee by the Board of Directors of the World Bank in June and then by the Union Cabinet on August 26.

He said on the basis of the epidemological data obtained from the annual surveillance, the country has been divided into three groups. These are Maharashtra where the prevalence of HIV infection ranges between 2 to 2.24 per cent in the age-group (15 to 49), Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur and Tamil Nadu which have a prevelance of 1 to 2 per cent in the same age-group and the rest of the country where the prevalence is less than 1 per cent.

Jawan petitions NHRC on dismissal

CALCUTTA, Sept 1 (UNI) — The man in the uniform could hardly realise that seeking a politician’s intervention to influence his bosses for a favourable transfer would cost him his job.

BSF jawan Kamal Dey has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission following his dismissal from service after the Trinamool Congress MP, Ms Krishna Bose, was approached to intervene in support of his representation to the higher-ups for a transfer near home on the plea that his ailing parents needed to be looked after.

In his petition Mr Dey, hailing from the Sarsuna area in the outskirts of the city, claimed the request to the MP was actually made by his mother in his absence.

It all started in June, 1995, when he was stationed in Murshidabad, with his elder brother posted in Kerala and the younger one in Rajasthan, Mr Dey submitted in his petition. In order to be able to look after his ailing parents, he had submitted a representation to the appropriate authorities seeking transfer to any office nearer to this city. As no response came his way even after two months, Mr Dey sought a personal interview with the BSF Commandant in charge, he said in the petition.

In November the same year, Mr Dey inquired about the fate of his representation when he was being sent to other duty locations along with his colleagues. It was then he was granted permission to meet the Commandant who turned down the representation.

On July 2, Mr Dey’s mother narrated the family situation to Ms Bose when the MP was on a visit to the locality where Mr Dey’s parents were staying. Ms Bose asked the mother to send a copy of the representation to her, the petition said.

Mr Dey submitted before the Commandant that on the day the MP visited their place, he was posted at Sealdah railway transit office.

TV serial reunites boy with parents
NEW DELHI: Eleven-year-old Kartik Selvan, who had run away on January 20, fearing punishment on misdemeanour, was reunited with his parents in Mumbai after seven months. He had accidentally landed at Mathura, where he was adopted by a Muslim family. This family happened to see an episode “Missing” on Sony Entertainment Television on August 2, where Kartik’s story was shown and his photograph flashed. They then made a call to Mumbai, and the child was re-united with his family. — UNI