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Tuesday,
September 24, 2002,
Chandigarh, India  
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Christians attacked, Bajrang Dal
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Intelligence fears major trouble ‘Pak terrorist camps should go’ Row over Indira Pratishthan
Crackers caused Hardoi blast 3 die in CPM, TC gunbattle
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Christians attacked, Bajrang Dal
blamed Patna, September 23 The Begusarai SP, Mr Rajesh Chandra, said: “Eight South Koreans, including six women, were offering Sunday Mass at the house of Anil Jyut when a mob of young miscreants attacked them. They took away cash, cameras, VCRs and passports. Police sources maintained that the attackers were members of the Bajrang Dal and they resorted to vandalism against the spread of Christianity and conversion attempts by the South Koreans. The South Korean team was said to be visiting the place in connection with a community development programme. Mr Christopher Matthew Bhansley, Director of Society for Integrated Community Development, and leader of the South Korean team suffered minor injuries in the attack. Other members are Sowjeang Wan, Choi Bok Young, Kin Sin Hye, Kim Fun Hee, Kown Sun Vik, Naw Byong Jin and Lee Young Sun. The police later recovered their belongings which the miscreants had thrown in an orchard. A sum of $600 and Rs 15,000 were, however, missing. The SP said the attackers had been identified. The police sources said Bajrang Dal activists might have believed that they were encouraging conversion. Interestingly, the Bajrang Dal spokesperson came out with denials and said if the case was made out against any of their members, they would surrender before the court. |
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CBI to have prosecution wing New Delhi, September 23 The directorate, which will be set up soon, will be headed by Mr S.K. Sharma, a Joint Secretary-level officer in the Ministry of Law but currently functioning as a legal adviser to the CBI, highly-placed sources said here today. The name of Mr Sharma had already been proposed and was likely to get a formal approval, they said. In 1997, the Supreme Court had in the famous Vineet Narain case directed the Centre to set up an independent and autonomous directorate of prosecution of the CBI, which would function under the supervisory control of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). After the formal constitution of the directorate, the CBI will have two separate wings - prosecution wing and investigation wing. “The prosecution wing will pursue prosecution arising out of investigation. This will ensure that they are pursued speedily and in a proper and water-tight manner, which will have a direct positive bearing on conviction rate,” the sources said. This would also pave the way for constituting the directorate in all state police departments. The CBI had been constituted under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. Under this Act, unless the state government concurred or gave consent, the CBI could not investigate any case falling within the jurisdiction of the state/s concerned and as per the apex court direction, the directorate of prosecution would be under the supervisory control of the CVC like the Enforcement Directorate. Although the Supreme Court’s direction was laudable, legal experts felt that a lacuna, which related to Section 4 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946, had been left unaddressed. While the Section 4 of the Act said the supervisory control of the CBI would be with the Government of India, the apex court’s direction said it would be under the supervisory control of the CVC. This meant that the CVC and the Government of India could be at loggerheads unless this Section 4 was struck down by the apex court, the experts felt. The government had also decided, as per the apex court’s direction in the Vineet Narain case, to appoint a Deputy Director (Prosecution) in the Enforcement Directorate. |
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3 arrested for helping Abu Salem
Hyderabad, September 23 A team has been sent to Karnataka to trace
Habib, a passport agent and the kingpin of the racket, who had come to Kurnool from Bellary and operated a small tea shop, about 12 years ago. According to Kurnool district police SP, the three officials
—Srinivas, a passport clerk in special branch, ASI Sattar and Mandal Revenue Inspector Mohammad Yasin — were produced before the Judicial (First Class) Magistrate,
Kurnool, today. They were charged under Section 12 of the Passport Act and Sections 120(3), 417 and 420, IPC. The arrested officials told the police that they ‘’believed’’ Habib and issued residence verification certificates without even checking the fake addresses mentioned in the passport application forms. The certificates had been issued in the names of Ramil Kamal Malik, Sana Malik and Neha Asif
Jafri. The SP did not see a larger conspiracy to the racket and said the three officials had committed ‘’irregularities’’ during the verification process. Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Home Minister T.Devender
Goud, in a briefing, said action would be taken against those involved in the racket and felt that the Centre and state governments should act in coordination in plugging the loopholes in the system.
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Intelligence fears major trouble New Delhi, September 23 Intelligence inputs gathered here say that of the three regions of the state going to the polls tomorrow, Srinagar is expected to be targeted the most by the terrorists, who are now out to prove a point after a good percentage of polling in the first phase. There are specific instructions from their handlers in Pakistan that a message must go out from the second phase of polling so that people don’t attempt to come out for polling in the next two rounds. Terrorists, specially in Srinagar, have also been threatened with dire consequences if
tomorrow's polling is again as much a success as was in the first phase. While Election Commission officials here were unwilling to comment on what they were expecting
tomorrow, intelligence sources here said while Badgam and Jammu could still see some peaceful polling, it is Srinagar which will be targeted. There are specific inputs with the security forces which point out that Srinagar could witness unprecedented violence. Of the 10 constituencies that go to the polls in Srinagar, the security forces expect that polling could be really low in at least six of them. Threats have already been issued out to the voters in these six constituencies, some of which also fall in the APHC stronghold, not to go out for voting. In the rest of the four constituencies also terrorists plan to adopt all methods to stop the voters from going to the polling booths. Messages from across the border have clear instructions that a “curfew-like” situation must prevail in entire Srinagar tomorrow. The terrorists must ensure such a situation even if it meant large-scale violence.
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‘Pak terrorist camps should go’ New Delhi, September 23 “Infiltration is one of the elements of the cross-border terrorism. The principal instruments (of cross-border terrorism) are the terrorist camps maintained by Islamabad in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” Mr Advani said here during the release function of the book “Terrorism Inc- the lethal cocktail of ISI, Taliban and Al- Qaida”, by Dr Bhure Lal, Chairman of the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The infrastructure of terrorism that had been set up over the last two decades in Pakistan had to be wound up, he said, adding that contrary to claims made by the country’s military establishment, infiltration had not stopped. |
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Row over Indira Pratishthan Lucknow, September 23 The BSP government, led by Ms Mayawati, has acquired the said land measuring 25 acres to construct Dr Ambedkar Memorial Research centre there. The Congress has opposed this move and called for a Chetawani rally on September 30. Stung by opposition criticism, Ms Mayawati said it was Mr Bhandari who had first tried to sell off the said land to private entrepreneurs. Mr Bhandari contradicted this statement and dared Ms Mayawati to make public the government document. The government yesterday made public the document that showed that in January 1977 Mr Bhandari had approved the construction of an exhibition hall and convention centre along with a 200-room hotel in the private sector in Indira Gandhi Pratishthan. It was decided to hand over 15 acres of the pratishthan to the private sector through a public tender and develop the remaining 10 acres for parking and a greenbelt at the licence fee rate of Rs 100 per acre. It was also decided to change the use of land for the hotel. The decision taken by Mr Bhandari on January 31,1997, in his own handwriting is available in the file of the housing department. After getting the approval from Mr Bhandari, the decision was formally released by the housing department through GO No. 763/9-A-1-97-7 UD/86 dated February7, 1997. “The statement of Mr Bhandari that no decision was taken during his regime to change the complexion of Indira Gandhi Pratishthan is wrong,” said Ms Mayawati in her statement. |
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Girls’ march against foeticide New Delhi, September 23 Organised under the auspices of Deepalaya, a pro-girl child institution, the girls will march down the streets to organise a demonstration on the occasion of Girl Child Day in the vicinity of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and Hauz Khas in south Delhi. The placard-wielding protesters, wearing black badges and carrying black banners, will not utter a single word during the demonstration and yet hope to focus the attention of society to the highly skewed sex ratio in the country. They will also submit a memorandum to Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha. According to the memorandum, the 2001 Census reveals an alarmingly low female sex ratio of 865 girls per 1000 boys in Delhi while it was 945 in 1991. The locality of Hauz Khas shows that the lowest sex ratio in Delhi with only 841 females per thousand males. “This drop in the number of girls born in India can be attributed to the strong cultural preference for sons. Parents tend to be calculative in choosing the sex of their child...Girls are often considered as someone else’s wealth. Impoverished parents are often reluctant to raise large amounts of money for a girl’s dowry. But for the rich and affluent, a male offspring will take care of their family business,” says the memorandum. It further points out that female foeticide is one of the extreme manifestations of violence against women and a strong reason for the scaringly low sex ratio. “Medical advancements in the field of sex determination tests have progressed with the advancement in modern technologies. Procedures like amniocentesis, sonography and chronic biopsy that are used to detect abnormalities in the foetus are today being extensively used to further the oppression of the girl child.”
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Crackers caused Hardoi blast Lucknow, September 23 Explosives experts from Agra who visited the scene of the accident concluded that the explosion occurred in the fire crackers being carried in the tempo, Lucknow DIG Arun Kumar told reporters here. “All evidence available on the spot indicate that the tempo was carrying three sacks of finished firecrackers on its roof, which exploded after the vehicle crossed a speed breaker,” he said. Of the 17 persons killed in yesterday’s explosion, 16 had been identified, he said. Only a 14-year-old boy was to be identified.
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3 die in CPM, TC gunbattle Kolkata, September 23 According to a report reaching the state government’s headquarter today morning, the sporadic clashes were still continuing at different places. Several huts of CPM supporters living in remote villages were also burnt down. A large contingent of para-military forces had been rushed to the place from the neighbouring districts of Howrah, Purulia and Bankura to help the Midnapore police. The IG, South Bengal, has also left for Midnapore from Kolkata. The Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, alleged that PWG activists had helped TMC workers in attacking CPM workers and supporters in Keshpur village. |
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