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New Delhi: Disposing a
clutch of petitions in
connection with the
Shaheen Bagh sit-in
protest, the Supreme
Court on Wednesday
said that public places
cannot be occupied in-
definitely and protests
must be allowed only in
designated areas.
The apex court ob-
served it is the duty of
the administration to
remove such road block-
ades. Unfortunately no
action by administra-
tion and hence court’s
intervention in the mat-
ter, it said.
A bench comprising
Justices SK Kaul, Krish-
na Murari and Hrishi-
kesh Roy said: “Public
places cannot be occu-
pied indefinitely. Dis-
sent and democracy go
hand in hand but pro-
testsmustbecarriedout
in designated area…
Suchkindof occupation
of public place for pro-
tests is not acceptable.”
On September 21, the
bench reserved its ver-
dict after observing
that the right to protest
has to be balanced with
the right of the people
to use a public road. So-
licitor General Tushar
Mehta said that though
Right to Turn on P6
Public spaces can’t be
occupied indefinitely
SC ON SHAHEEN BAGH
Stockholm: The Royal
Swedish Academy of
Sciences on Wednesday
awarded the 2020 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry to
Emmanuelle Charpen-
tier and Jennifer Doud-
na for “development of
a method for genome
editing”.
“Emmanuelle and
Jennifer have discov-
ered one of gene tech-
nology’s sharpest tools:
the CRISPR/Cas9 ge-
netic scissors,” the
Academy said.
“Using these, re-
searchers can change
the DNA of animals,
plants, and microorgan-
isms with Turn on P6
Chemistry Queens!
US-French duo
win Nobel Prize for
gene editing tool
Guinness World Record title holder Rajlakshmi Manda rings a bell weighing 613 kg, meant
for Ram Temple, after it arrived from Rameswaram by road, in Ayodhya on Wednesday.
RING FOR
RAM IN
AYODHYA
—PHOTO BY PTI
TWO DECADES IN OFFICE,
A WINNER ALL THE WAY!
 In yet another political
milestone for Narendra
Modi, the prime minister
on Wednesday as he
entered his 20th year
in a public office without
a break
 PM Modi was
appointed as chief
minister of Gujarat by the
BJP when the saffron party
was battling infighting
among its own leaders. It
would not be wrong to say
that PM Modi used his 3
terms as Gujarat CM to
strengthen the party and
helped the BJP end the
stronghold of Congress
party at the Centre
 Modi took charge
as Gujarat chief
minister on October
7, 2001 soon after the
devastating earthquake
which had rocked Bhuj
 In 2007, Modi took
oath as Gujarat CM for
the second time and
he became the CM in
2012 for the third time
in a row. In 2014, Modi
took oath as Prime
Minister after BJP
won Lok Sabha poll
with majority. In 2019,
PM Modi led BJP to a
thumping victory to take
oath as prime minister
for the second time
Amit Shah @AmitShah
Inspired by the thoughts, vision and charismatic personality of Prime
Minister Modi, every Indian today is working towards re-establishing
India as a ‘Vishwa Guru’. It is a matter of great pride for me to work for the
welfare of the nation under his extraordinary leadership and guidance
EX-CBI CHIEF
ENDS LIFE
Former Governor of Ma-
nipur and Nagaland, and
ex-CBI Director Ashwani
Kumar was found dead
at his residence in Shim-
la on Wednesday, Mohit
Chawla, SP Shimla told
news agency ANI. Kumar
was the Director Gen-
eral of Police, Himachal
Pradesh, before being
appointed the director of
CBI from August 2008 to
November 2010.
GUPTESHWAR
LEFT IN LURCH
Seat sharing between
JDU and BJP has created
a hurdle for top cop-
turned-politician ‘Robin
Hood’ Gupteshwar Pan-
dey’s electoral plunge
post taking VRS. Buxar
is Pandey’s hometown
and it has gone to BJP
in the deal. Pandey, who
came to limelight with
Sushant case, is now
sprinting towards BJP
hoping to grap a ticket.
Mathura: A journalist
and three others on way
to Hathras and arrested
by the Uttar Pradesh po-
lice earlier this week
have been booked under
the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act and
sedition, according to
an FIR registered in
Mathura on Wednesday.
The four, who had
been arrested in Mathu-
ra on Monday, had been
placed under preventive
detention but an FIR
was registered against
them in the Mant police
station of Mathura on
Wednesday and subse-
quently they were pre-
sented before a court.
These four include
Atiq-ur- Rehman from
Muzaffar Nagar, Siddiq
from Malappuram (Ker-
ala),MasoodfromBahra-
ich and Alam from Ram-
pur. Siddiq is a journal-
ist. They were arrested
on Monday night after a
laptop and some objec-
tionable literature relat-
ing to ‘Justice for Hath-
rasVictim’wasallegedly
recoveredfromtheirpos-
session while they were
en route to Hathras.
Meanwhile, CM Yogi
Adityanath said that the
Oppsitionisdoingpolitics
on ‘dead bodies of poor’.
Will deal with them with
‘heavy hand’. Turn on P6
Journalist,3 others on
way to Hathras slapped
with UAPA,sedition
The FIR blames them for attempting to
incite riots and fuelling caste violence
for which they were collecting donations
RHEA BREATHES FRESH
AFTER MONTH IN JAIL
Mumbai: Actor Rhea
Chakraborty left Mum-
bai’s Byculla prison
this evening after being
granted bail by the
Bombay High Court, 28
days after her arrest on
drugs-related charges
in the Sushant Singh
Rajput case. Her broth-
er Showik has been de-
nied bail.
The actor, hounded
by the media in the
past, left in a car with
its windows covered
with newspapers. It
drove through a huge
crowd of reporters,
cameramen, policemen
and others gathered
outside the jail. The
Mumbai Police had
warned the media
against “chasing celeb-
rities and others” and
“endangering lives”
shortly after the actor’s
bail. Turn on P6
DON’T AGREE CELEBS SHOULD
BE TREATED HARSHLY: JUDGE
The judge disagreed that celebrities and role
models should be treated harshly so that it sets
an example for the young generation and they
do not get encouraged to commit such offences.
“I do not agree. Everybody is equal before law.
No celebrity or role model enjoys any special
privilege before the Court of law. Similarly, such
person also does not incur any special liability
when he faces law in the Courts. Each case will
have to be decided on its own merits.
SUSHANT’S FAMILY WRITES
TO CBI, SLAMS AIIMS PANEL
Days after a team of doctors from Delhi’s
AIIMS said that actor Sushant Singh Rajput
was not murdered and that it is a case of
suicide, his family has written to the CBI
chief, seeking the formation of a fresh
medical board to review the autopsy and
viscera reports by a Mumbai hospital. The
family, through its lawyers, has also accused
AIIMS panel of being “unprofessional” and
has threatened to approach court.
BAIL GRANTED: “She (Rhea Chakraborty) is not part of the chain of
drug dealers. She has not forwarded the drugs allegedly procured by her
to somebody else to earn monetary or other benefits,” says Bombay HC
 Report every day for 10 days to Mumbai police
 FURNISH BAIL BOND `1 LAKH
 Deposit passport, cannot leave country or
Mumbai without permission
 CANNOT MEET WITH ANY OTHER WITNESSES
CONDITIONS FOR THE BAIL
Will investigation reach Pilot’s doorstep?
Aditi Nagar
Jaipur: Inanewtwistin
Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pi-
lotrelationship,aserious
development has taken
place during the last 24
hours,whenattheinsist-
ence of Jaipur Police
Commissioner Anand
Srivastava, Jaipur’s Vid-
hayakpuri police regis-
tered a criminal FIR
against Pilot’s media ad-
visor Lokendra Singh
andtheRajasthanEditor
of a leading national
news channel ‘Aaj Tak’
SharatKumarinarecent
phone tapping case.
The case has been reg-
istered under sections
505 (1) (whoever makes,
publishes or circulates
any statement, rumour
or report), 505 (2) (state-
ments creating or pro-
motingenmity,hatredor
ill-will between classes),
120 B (criminal conspir-
acy) of the Indian Penal
Code and section 76 of
the IT Act.
Both the accused jour-
nalists have been asked
to appear before the po-
lice for interrogation
this morning. Now, the
Pilot camp has gone ex-
tremely upset with the
possibility of naming
Pilot himself by his own
media advisor Lokend-
ra, because the list of all
these mobile numbers
was believed to be hand-
ed over by Pilot himself
to his media advisor for
circulation in media.
The main point of con-
cern is that if during the
course of interrogation,
media advisor Lokendra
names Pilot, then what
will happen?
According to legal ex-
perts, this might lead the
entire investigation to
Pilot’s door-step. There-
fore after guessing this
possibility, a concerned
or worried Pilot came
into action in support of
his media advisor and
Aaj Tak Rajasthan Edi-
tor and reportedly sent a
clear ‘message’ to Rahul
Gandhi and the mem-
bers of three-member
committee ie Ahmed Pa-
tel, Ajay Maken and KC
Venugopal saying that it
is a clear violation of a
two-month-old‘ceasefire’
which was done under
the instructions and di-
rect supervision of Pri-
yanka Gandhi. Turn on P8
FIR AGAINST PILOT MEDIA ADVISOR AND ONE JOURNALIST
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Abhishek Srivastava
Jaipur: The state gov-
ernment has started
collecting details about
the status of land that
was allotted in various
districts by the former
Vasundhara Raje gov-
ernment for construc-
tion of BJP offices.
The objective of the ex-
ercise is yet not clear
but it is likely to become
a political issue in the
coming days. The au-
thorities are collecting
details like present sta-
tus of land allotment
site, whether the con-
struction has started,
and the maps were ap-
proved by local bodies
or not. According to
sources, the authorities
concerned are also ex-
amining if amount has
been deposited on land.
“Info on land allotted for BJP offices sought”
STATUS OF BJP LAND
‘Congneedstochange‘PoorDaddy’image’Satish Poonia, Gulabchand Kataria, Rajendra Rathore, Jaskaur Meena, Madan Dilawar submit memorandum to Governor
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: The state BJP
upped the ante against
the state Congress gov-
ernment on Wednesday
by submitting a memo-
randum to the Gover-
nor Kalraj Mishra
against rising crime in
the state.
State BJP chief Sat-
ish Poonia led a five-
member delegation in-
cluding leader of oppo-
sition Gulab Chand
Kataria, deputy LOP
Rajendra Rathore,
Dausa MP Jaskaur
Meena and state BJP
General Secretary
Madan Dilawar.
Poonia said that the
state government was
failing at curbing both
the rising corona num-
bers as well as the spike
in the crime figures.
Quoting figures from
the National crime re-
cord bureau (NCRB),
Poonia said that Ra-
jasthan stood number
one in crime against
women in the country.
He attributed this to the
absence of a full-time
home minister in the
state. “The state govern-
ment needs to change
its ‘poor daddy’ image
by immediately curbing
the crime rate in the
state which was more
dangerous than the ris-
ing corona cases,” said
Poonia. He appealed to
the Governor to review
the law and order situa-
tion in the state. He said
that even the journal-
ists were being threat-
ened and cases were be-
ing registered against
them to silence them.
Kataria, who was
home minister in the
previous BJP govern-
ment, called the situa-
tion in the state very se-
rious giving example of
the Thanagazi incident
whereafatherof araped
daughtercommittedsui-
cide by hanging himself
depressed by injustice
done to his family. He
said that Rajasthan has
registered spike off 42-
43%inrapecasesduring
last one year. While
praising his own tenure
as home minister of the
state, Kataria sarcasti-
cally asked the CM
Ashok Gehlot to remove
his eye glasses and see
the situation clearly.
Rathore said that the
DGP of Rajasthan was
attributing the rise in
crime to the registra-
tion of false cases by
the people. He said the
police have been beaten
at eight occasions and
the CM should resign
immediately. Dausa MP
Jaskaur Meena raised
the issue of rape with a
deaf and dumb girl in
Dausa district while
Madan Dilawar called
the Baran rape incident
as heart-wrenching.
Jodh cops probing
rape, blackmail
Teenager raped,
left unconscious on
a road in Barmer
Rathore attacks
Cong over crime
Rajeev Gaur
Jodhpur: The Maha-
mandir police station
has received a report
alleging rape and
blackmail against one
Amit Tanwar in reply
to latter’s FIR against
the lady registered
earlier.
The blackmail vic-
tim along with the re-
port also submitted
audio recordings of
Amit Tanwar threat-
ening her father of
dire consequences if
he does not pay rupees
50 lakh in 5 install-
ments spread over in
about 2 months.
The ex-boyfriend
had demanded the
price for separation
with the girl peace-
fully else he would
make all the commu-
nication between
them public. Amit
Tanwar ran a investi-
gation, officer Ash-
ish Kumar said that
the police have begun
the investigations
and victim has been
sent for medical ex-
amination.
He said that soon the
victim’s statement will
also be recorded under
section 164.The police
said that the language
of report given by
Amit Tanwar matched
with the language used
while threatening vic-
tim’s father.
Durgsingh Rajpurohit
Barmer: Even as up-
roar over UP’s Hathras
gang rape is still raging,
a 14-year-old girl was al-
legedly raped by a man
while his accomplice
shot the video of the in-
cident on his mobile
phone in Shiv region of
Barmer district of west-
ern Rajasthan. The vic-
tim is admitted at a gov-
ernment hospital.
According to the vic-
tim’s statement, she
kept crying and plead-
ing the accused to leave
her and not to film the
incident in the mobile
phone but they did not
heed her.
The victim was alone
in the house as her par-
ents had gone to vote in
panchayat elections on
Tuesday. The accused
forcibly took the victim
with them to a secluded
place where one of the
accused raped her while
his accomplice shot the
incident on the mobile
phone. District collector
Vishram Meena and Su-
perintendent of Police
Anand Sharma met the
victim and her family
membersatthehospital.
The police have
launched a manhunt for
theaccused.Meanwhile,
Kailash Chaudhary
tweeted, “The tone of
apathy of the state gov-
ernment is now echoing
even in a quiet area like
Barmer. Possible step
will be taken for justice.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Bharatiya
Janata Party national
spokesperson and
Member of Parliament
from Jaipur Rural Ra-
jyavardhan Singh
Rathore on Wednesday
took to social media to
lash out at the Congress
government for the de-
teriorating law and or-
der and increasing
crime against women
in Rajasthan.
He said that the pub-
lic was suffering due to
poor law and order in
the state due to which
Rajasthan has reached
the top in cases of
crimes against women.
There have been so
many cases of rape in
Rajasthan, but Con-
gress leaders Rahul
Gandhi, Priyanka Gan-
dhi, CM Gehlot or other
Congress leader did not
condole the victims’ by
meeting. CM is giving
statements of not com-
paring Baran with
Hathras and thus he is
giving clean chit.
First India Bureau
Jhalawar: The pro-
tem speaker of MP
assembly Ramesh-
war Sharma on
Wednesday advo-
cated for public ex-
action of rapists in
the country. He said
that rapists should
be publicly hanged
till death and its live
telecast should also
be done. It is for the
judiciary to decide
for the penalty of
the culprit.
Sharma was in
Kota to express
grief over the de-
mise of Lok Sabha
speaker Om Birla’s
father, Shrikishan
Birla. Sharma said
that EC is alert and
serious for ensur-
ing corona guide-
lines during assem-
bly bypolls in MP.
First India Bureau
Sirohi: SP Pooja Awa-
na on Wednesday
reached Abu Road to
inquire about an al-
leged rape case of a mi-
nor girl. She visited
Sadar PS where SHO
Anand Kumar briefed
about case.
Awana said, victim’s
father has stated in re-
port, his minor daugh-
ter was abducted and
raped on pretext of
marriage.
BJP district presi-
dent Narayan Purohit,
MLA Jagsiram Koli
also reached village and
met the family of vic-
tim. Family told, girl
was missing for month.
‘COURT TO
DECIDE RAPE
PENALTY’
MINOR GIRL
ABDUCTED
AND RAPED
KirodiMeenaextendssupportto
Bainsla on quote agitation
Laxmikant Sharma
Dausa: The politics
scenario over reserva-
tion issue has started
heating up in the state
and gained momentum
on Wednesday when
RS MP Dr Kirodi Lal
Meena extended his
support to the demand
in Dausa.
He announced to
even join the Gurjar
agitation on the rail-
way tracks if invited by
Gurjar Aarakshan
Sangharsh Samiti, Col.
(retd) Kirodi Singh
Bainsla. Bainsla had on
Sunday warned the
state government of
agitation if the demand
of reservation for most
backward class (MBC)
was not met with this
time. Meena supported
the demand of MBC
reservation and ap-
pealed to the state gov-
ernment to fulfill it. It
will be interesting for
all political pundits to
see the two parallel po-
litical railway tracks
come together in the
name of MBC reserva-
tion while the state is
being ruled by a sensi-
tive and politically as-
tute CM Gehlot. Meena
said, women leaders
were taking an unethi-
cal route to political
success.
(From L-R) Rajendra Rathore, Gulabchand Kataria, Satish Poonia, Jaskaur Meena and Madan Dilawar present memorandum to
Governor on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA
Rajsamand MP Diya
submits memo to Guv
Jaipur: BJP leader and
MP Rajsamand Diya Ku-
mari also submitted on
Wednesday a memoran-
dum to the Governor
regarding increasing
incidents of rape and
crime in the state. She
submitted the letter be-
fore the BJP delegation
met the Rajasthan Gov-
ernor Kalraj Mishra.
When asked about two
memorandum on a
same topic in a same
day, state BJP president
Satish Poonia said only
five people were al-
lowedbytheRajBhavan
as such Kumari submit-
ted a memorandum
first being a woman.
Kumari said that she
had sought appoint-
ment with the Governor
long ago and she met
him today so she also
submitted the letter. Af-
ter submitting the mem-
orandum, Kumari told
the media persons that
the incidents of rape
are increasing continu-
ously in the state, due to
which Rajasthan is
ashamed. “I have drawn
Governor’s attention to
increasing crime in the
state. I have also sought
Governor’s interven-
tion so that crime could
be checked,” MP Diya
Kumari said.
Diya Kumari submitted a memorandum to Governor on the
increasing incidents of rape and crime in Rajasthan on Wed.
STATE CRIME DATA
LAND ALLOTMENTS
Vasundhara Raje
@VasundharaBJP
Today again in Barmer,
an innocent 15 year
old was raped. Em-
barrassed to see such
situation in the state.
Sometimes gang rape,
sometimes more than
little girls. Is this the
tragedy of Rajasthan.
Do something the
government .. !
Rameshwar Sharma
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
3 youth threaten minor, father complains cops
Vinod Tiwari
Dholpur: Father of a
13 year old minor girl
has registered a com-
plaint in the Bari Sa-
dar police station of
the district against
three youths of the
neighbourhood for
pressurizing his
minor daughter to
be promiscuous,
threatening making
her obscene photo-
graphs viral on social
media.
Reporting against
Rajveer, Neeraj and
Dilip, the minor’s fa-
ther in his complaint
stated that when he
saw his Facebook ac-
count on 30 Septem-
ber 2020, he came
across obscene photo-
graphs of his daugh-
ter. The report
alleged taking away
of the minor girl on a
false pretext
and clicking obscene
photographs of her
to later pressurize
her for sexual fa-
vours.
The report stated
that the youth would
have raped his daugh-
ter that very day but
she was saved because
her mother reached
the neighbouring
house while search-
ing for the daughter.
The Bari police have
registered a case un-
der various sections
and are investigating
the case further.
Dr Kirodi Lal Meena
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Corona Blast: State reports
2,151 new cases in 24 hours
Naveen Joshi
Jaipur: The mortal re-
mains of Congress
MLA Kailash Chandra
Trivedi, who died at a
hospital in Gurgaon on
Monday night, were
consigned to flames at
his ancestral village in
Bhilwara.
Trivedi, 65, who was
Sahara (Bhilwara)
MLA, passed away late
on Monday night at a
Gurgaon Hospital. The
Rajasthan government
had moved him to the
hospital five days ago
by an air ambulance.
His relatives, sup-
porters, villagers paid
floral tributes to Trive-
di in Raipur village be-
fore the cremation.
Trivedi’s elder son,
Sandeep Trivedi lit the
funeral pyre amid
chanting of Vedic man-
tras.
The Cong leader’s fu-
neral procession start-
ed from his residence in
Raipur.
The market in Raipur
was closed on Wednes-
day to mourn the Con-
gress Veteran’s demise.
Trivedi recovered
from Coronavirus in-
fection, but was suffer-
ing from lung fibrosis
and thus, was shifted to
Gurgaon from Jaipur
on October 2.
Various Congress
leaders including
Health Minister Dr
Raghu Sharma, Agri-
culture Minister Lal-
chand Kataria, Trans-
port Minister Pratap
Singh Khachariyawas,
Sports Minister Ashok
Chandna, Dairy Chair-
man Ramlal Jat, BJP
leaders and others paid
tributes to Trivedi, who
was a three-time MLA
from Sahara.
Cong MLA Trivedi laid to rest, tributes pour in
LAST JOURNEY
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The number of
total corona infected
since the break out of
the pandemic, crossed
the psychological mark
of 1.5 lakh on Wednes-
day.
The state reported
2,151 new corona cases
in the past 24 hours
along with 16 deaths.
One death each was re-
ported from Ajmer,
Banswara, Bharatpur,
Bikaner, Chittorgarh,
Ganganagar, Hanuman-
garh, Jalore, Jaipur,
Jodhpur, Kota, Pali, Si-
kar, Tonk and Udaipur
taking the death toll to
1590 so far.
Maximum 473 new
cases were reported
from Jaipur, followed
by 329 from Jodhpur,
261 from Bikaner, 185
from Alwar, 126 from
Udaipur, 120 from
Bhilwara, 90 from
Ajmer, 64 from Sikar, 50
from Pali, 46 from Dun-
garpur, 37 from Kota, 33
from Ganganagar, 32
from Rajsamand, 31
each from Bharatpur &
Chittorgarh, 29 from Ja-
lore, 28 from Sirohi, 21
from Nagaur, 18 each
from Churu & Jhunj-
hunu, 16 from Dausa, 15
each from Jhalawar &
Sawai Madhopur, 12
from Karauli, 11 each
from Barmer, Dholpur
& Jaisalmer, 10 each
from Banswara & Tonk,
7 from Bundi, 6 from
Baran, 4 from Pratap-
garh, and 1 from Hanu-
mangarh.
Meanwhile, district
CMHO Dr Ajay Chod-
hary informed that in a
mask distribution event
organised at the munic-
ipal body office in Sikar
49 officers and employ-
ees were tested, where-
in, Municipal Commis-
sioner Shrawan Kumar
came out to be corona
positive.
The event was attend-
ed by Minister Dr Sub-
hash Garg, PCC Chief
Govind Singh Dotasra
along with many other
district officers.
AVINASH PANDE
@avinashpandeinc
Received the news
of Senior @INCIndia
Leader mr @Motila-
lVoraji being corona
positive. I pray to God
for his speedy recov-
ery and long life.
HOME QUARANTINE
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Rajasthan’s
dignitaries settled in
India and abroad will
be brought to light on
social media through
the ‘Hum Rajasthani’
programme.
Rajasthan Founda-
tion and Simply
Jaipur on Wednesday
signed a Memoran-
dum of Understand-
ing (MoU) in this re-
gard.
Dheeraj Srivastava,
the chairman of Ra-
jasthan Foundation,
and Anshu Harsh,
editor of Simply
Jaipur, signed the
aforementioned MoU.
Srivastava said that
the objective of ‘Hum
Rajasthani’ pro-
gramme is to intro-
duce those Rajastha-
ni people, who are
settled in the country
and abroad and have
established their
identity with their
hard work, intelli-
gence and skills so
that the young genera-
tion gets to know
about them and can
also get inspired by
these exemplary per-
sonalities.
Adding further,
Srivastava said that
the foundation also
played a crucial role
in connecting doctors
and other experts who
are from Rajasthan
and settled in various
countries through a
webinar during the
Covid pandemic to
contribute its bit to-
wards our fight
against the Coronavi-
rus pandemic and
also to help people.
Tasleem Usmani
Jaipur: Congress Chief
Whip, Dr Mahesh Joshi
on Wednesday, consoled
the family of the vic-
tims of the cotton fac-
tory fire incident in
Brahmpuri area and
also handed over
cheques of financial as-
sistance by the govern-
ment.
A man and his minor
son were killed and sev-
eral others were injured
when the factory caught
fire recently.
Joshi met the family
members and expressed
grief.
The Chief Whip also
urged people in the lo-
cality to follow guide-
lines related to the
deadly COVID-19 infec-
tion to stay safe from
the infection and also
to prevent its further-
spread.
While speaking to the
people in the Brahm-
puri locality, Dr Joshi
said that wearing mask
is an important defence
against the virus spread
and everyone should
wear a mask and main-
tain social distancing to
prevent the virus
spread.
Talking about the lo-
cal bodies’ election, the
Congress leader exuded
confidence that the par-
ty candidates will per-
form good in the up-
coming elections.
On the issue of haz-
ards of firecrackers for
COVID-19 patients, he
said that he has spoken
to Chief Minister,
Ashok Gehlot in this re-
gard and urged him to
allow the sale of green
(environment- friendly)
firecrackers during the
upcoming festive sea-
son.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Chief Jus-
tice of Supreme court
has formed a special
three-judge bench to
conduct hearing in
SLP filed by Rajasthan
government about elec-
tions in six newly cre-
ated Municipal Corpo-
rations.
Justice AM Khan-
wilkar, justice Dinesh
Maheshwari and jus-
tice Sanjeev Khanna
will hear the petition
today. State govern-
ment had approached
the apex court and filed
a petition after the HC
dismissed the state
government’s applica-
tion to extend the time
limit for holding elec-
tions of Municipal
Corporations in Jaipur,
Jodhpur and Kota.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: To obstruct a
govt servant from per-
forming his duty is a
crime, but to obstruct
a corona warrior from
performing his duties
during corona times,
is a more serious
crime. This fact proved
to be true, when an
IAS, Dr Artika Shukla
did not find her name
in the confirmation
list released by the
central DoPT on
Wednesday.
IAS Artika Shukla is
facing a judicial case in
which she has been
charged of misbehav-
ing and manhandling
a corona warrior, Dr
Jyotsna Ranga. The
ratified list of the Ra-
jasthan cadre IAS,
which has reached the
CS and DoP includes
the name of Rohitash-
va Singh Tomar, Amit
Yadav, Athar Aamir ul
Shafi Khan, Jasmeet
Singh Sandhu, Manju
Pratap Singh, Ravin-
dra Goswami and Tina
Dabi. Total 109 IAS of-
ficers of 2016 batch
have been confirmed in
the list.
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on
Wednesday, extended
relief to one of the ac-
cused in Laxmi Vilas
Palace Hotel disinvest-
ment case, Pradeep
Baijal, by staying the
order of High Court,
which had directed
him to appear before
the CBI court to fur-
nish bonds.
One of the accused
in the case, Baijal was
sick and therefore, the
Apex Court gave him
relief on humanitari-
an grounds.
Other accused Jy-
otsna Suri, Ashish
Guha and Kanti lal
will also appear before
the court to furnish
bonds as directed by
the High Court.
The High Court had
stayed the arrest war-
rant against the ac-
cused in a case involv-
ing the sale of an
Udaipur hotel at an al-
leged loss of Rs 244
crore to the exchequer
and directed them to
furnish the bonds in
the CBI court.
‘Hum Rajasthani’ to
highlight state achievers
Bhanwar Singh Bhati is in ‘home quarantine’ after three in his family tested positive
DrJoshivisitskinof Bhrampurifire
victims, offersfinancialaidfromgovt
Spl 3 judge
bench to hear
SLP on polls
Rajasthan IAS deprived of
promotion for misconduct
SC stays HC
order, granting
relief to accused
Mahesh Joshi hands over a cheque on behalf of govt to kin of fire victims in Bhrampuri.
Nizam Kantaliya
Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has
directed the state government to exe-
cute the order passed by the High
Court in November 2018, pertaining
to grade pay of judicial employees.
A division
bench of justice
Prakash Gupta
and justice Ma-
hendra Goyal is-
sued the direc-
tions of the state
government to
comply with the
court order by No-
vember 3. In case
the government
fails to implement
the order, the finance secretary will
have to appear in the court. Judicial
employee Narendra Mathur and oth-
ers had filed a contempt petition in
thecourtafterthegovernmentdidnot
complywiththecourtorderpassedon
Nov 3, 2018.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court
has directed to include candidates in
Lab Technician recruitment-2020,
whose results of
revaluation have
been released af-
ter much delay.
The candidates,
whose result of
revaluation of the
diploma course
was declared after
the last date of fil-
ing application,
will be included in
the recruitment
process, said the court.
Justice Ashok Gaur passed the or-
der on a Public Interest Litigation
(PIL) filed by Kalpna and few others.
Advocate Tanveer Ahmad argued in
the Rajasthan High Court on behalf
of the petitioners.
Follow court order:
Raj HC to Govt
LabTechhiring:
Includethosewho
sought recheck
IN THE COURTYARD
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Education Min-
ister Govind Singh Do-
tasra on Wednesday,
said that the decision on
re-opening of schools
will be taken after dis-
cussion with Chief Min-
ister Ashok Gehlot.
He said that the Cen-
tre has allowed open-
ing of schools from
October 15, in unlock-5
guidelines and has left
the decision to the
state government.
He said that the
schools in the state are
closed till October 31
and a decision will be
taken after a review of
the situation.
The minister said
that the session and
study of four months
have been disturbed
and now the education
department has start-
ed working out on re-
ducing the syllabus by
30 to 40 percent.
Dotasra, who was
holding a press confer-
ence, said that discus-
sion on recruitment of
computer teachers is
being held and a final
decision will be taken
soon.
On pendency of dry
ration distribution
against midday meal
to school students at
their home, the minis-
ter said that the pen-
dency will be cleared
in coming days.
Dry ration of May
and June months was
distributed, but it is
lying pending after
June. He also informed
that the teachers’ fe-
licitation ceremony,
which has been can-
celled twice due to co-
rona pandemic, will be
held virtually on Octo-
ber 15.
Govind Singh Dotasra addresses a press conference at Shiksha
Sankul on Wednesday.
‘Will decide on re-opening of schools after discussing with CM’
—PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA
—FILE PHOTO
Chairman of Rajasthan Foundation, Dheeraj Srivastava &
Editor of Simply Jaipur, Anshu Harsh after signing an MoU
regarding the ‘Hum Rajasthani’ programme.
Dr Raghu Sharma, Lalchand Kataria & Pratap Singh
Khachariyawas visit Kailash Trivedi’s Raipur residence to
condole his demise.
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he medical dra-
ma playing out
daily since
President Don-
ald Trump con-
tracted COVID-19 is alarm-
ing – but not surprising.
Any physician who’s ever
rendered medical advice or
hospital care to a promi-
nent person probably em-
pathizes with Trump’s
medical team. It’s a real
challenge to care for VIP
patients, whether they’re
hospitalized or not.
Of course, following best
infection-control practices
and providing evidence-
based care are what physi-
cians should do with all
patients, even difficult or
entitled VIPs. Easier said
than done.
As an internist, I’ve per-
sonally been threatened by
a mob boss who didn’t want
to be discharged from the
hospital, overwhelmed by
hordes of Roma families
suspicious of medical care
for a dying king and asked
to withhold information
from the public that would
be detrimental to a promi-
nent person. Those are in-
timidating challenges to
professionalism and ethics.
What is VIP syndrome?
VIP syndrome is the ten-
dency of clinicians to treat
influential or famous pa-
tients differently because
they feel pressured to ac-
cede to the VIP’s wishes.
Psychiatrists have iden-
tified three types of “spe-
cial” patients who can cre-
ate difficulty by dazzling or
intimidating the care team:
celebrities, VIPs and po-
tentates.
Celebrities focus un-
wanted media attention on
medical care. VIPs gener-
ate awe so that the care
team may lose their objec-
tivity. Potentates exude
narcissism and can un-
earth it in others, trigger-
ing power struggles with
the health care team.
Each subcategory of VIP
patient has the potential to
insist on special privileges,
desired treatments or
changes in care plans that
can sabotage the best-
thought-out medical regi-
men. Physicians may order
too many tests because of
anxiety about missing
something – or too few tests
or consultations in order to
spare the VIP pain, embar-
rassment or scrutiny. For
example, inquiries about
substance abuse, sexual ac-
tivity or psychological
symptoms may be omitted.
Unrealistic demands can
cause unwise clinical deci-
sions that can then result
in bad outcomes. For exam-
ple, if a famous individual
has unresolved pneumonia
but the treating physician
doesn’t ask about sexual
preference and activity,
HIV may never be consid-
ered or treated.
Ahigh-profilepatienthas
the potential to monopolize
a medical team’s attention
thatmightotherwisebedis-
tributed across all patients
currently under care.
And VIP syndrome isn’t
a concern just inside the
Beltway, in Los Angeles or
in other places known for
powerful, rich or famous
inhabitants. A 2017 survey
of hospital-based physi-
cians from eight U.S. insti-
tutions revealed that a ma-
jority of them reported
feeling pressured by pa-
tients, family members and
hospital representatives to
provide unnecessary care
to VIP patients. The re-
searchers pointed out that
caring for VIP patients
comes with “challenges for
physicians as well for the
patients themselves.”
Handwritten ‘Feel Bet-
ter Mr. President’ sign:
Well-wishers gather Oct. 5
outside the hospital where
President Trump was re-
ceiving treatment for COV-
ID-19. Olivier Douliery/
AFP via Getty Images
Sticking to standards
is the best care: When
physicians have written
about VIP syndrome over
the years, common advice
themes emerge: Treat the
VIP as you would any other
patient with the same con-
dition; avoid power strug-
gles; insist on the most ev-
idence-based therapies;
and establish a short, firm
chain of command that ex-
cludes the entourage ac-
companying the VIP.
In a 2018 article, several
L.A. surgeons urged care
teams looking after VIP pa-
tients to do their best to fol-
low standard procedures,
treating the high-profile
patient like any other. They
cautionedagainstthetemp-
tation to “overdo care” with
unnecessary tests and pro-
cedures.
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What the outstanding person
does, others will try to do. The
standards such people create
will be followed by the whole
world. —The Bhagavad Gita
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The reforms in natural gas marketing
will further de-bottleneck the E&P
sector, allow affiliate companies to
participate in the bidding process
and will greatly help in fulfilling
the national objective of reducing
dependence on crude imports.
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The BJP MP’s lewd and clumsy
remark for daughters of Uttar Pradesh
and the country shows the ‘gait,
face, character’ of the Adityanath
government. Here, the representatives
of BJP and Modi government
themselves have become ‘Dushasan’
rather than demanding justice for their
daughter. #HathrasHorrorShocksIndia
RHEA FREED, NCB
LICKS ITSWOUNDS
ll the strain on their vocal chords by
some television anchors to pronounce
Rhea Chakraborty as guilty and Kanga-
na Ranaut’s all-out effort to paint her and
Bollywood in the black has gone to waste.
One thought that with Rhea walking out of Byculla
jail after Bombay High Court granted her bail and
AIIMS, Delhi, rejecting the theory that Sushant
Singh Rajput was murdered, they would accept the
verdict. That has not happened. Lawyer of SSR’s
family has raised doubts over the credibility of
AIIMS and demanded that a fresh forensic team
should look into the Cooper Hospital’s report in the
case. The AIIMS report was handed over to the CBI
which has so far remained quiet on the issue.
The family may dispute AIIMS report and the
Cooper Hospital’s post-mortem report but the Bom-
bay High Court’s order suggests that the Narcotics
Control Bureau tried to frame Rhea with frivolous
charges. In its bail order the high court said that
Rhea “is not part of a chain of drug dealers and
“has not forwarded the drug allegedly procured by
her to somebody else to earn monetary or other
benefits”. The NCB had accused Rhea of being “an
active member of a drugs syndicate” and wanted
her to be treated harshly in order to make an exam-
ple out of her. Rejecting the argument, the judge
said, “Everybody is equal before law.” Neither do
celebrities get special privileges, nor special liabil-
ity before a court of law, the court said.
This is not the end of the witch-hunt as alleged
by the Rhea camp, though.
A
IN-DEPTH
PROTEST, BUT NOT
AT PUBLIC PLACES
ublic places cannot be occupied “indefi-
nitely” for staging protests, the Supreme
Court said with reference to Delhi’s
Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citi-
zenship Amendment Act (CAA). The sit-
in staged earlier this year lasted for over three
monthsandwasspearheadedmainlybywomenwho
sat through harsh winter months and rain demand-
ing repeal of the Act. The protests ended in March
aftertheimpositionof lockdowninviewof Covid-19.
The Supreme Court observed, “Public spaces
and places can’t be occupied indefinitely, whether
in Shaheen Bagh or elsewhere. The administration
must keep such spaces free from obstructions and
not wait to fire from the court’s shoulder.” Instead
of hiding behind courts, the authorities should act
on their own, the Supreme Court added while al-
lowing protesters the right to dissent peacefully at
“designated places”.
The sit-in had deeply divided the society on com-
munallineswithDelhiBJPleaderKapilMishrawho
charged the protesters to be “traitors”, “Pakistanis”
and“terrorists”.Thepolicelodgedcasesagainstsev-
eral of the protesters but left out Mishra who was
also alleged to have incited communal passions.
The Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests for the first
time saw Muslim women collectively raise their
voice against the legislation, shattering the stereo-
type image of being burqa-clad and oppressed.
The apex court’s order has settled the issue of sit-
in protests at “public places or spaces” but the gov-
ernments are becoming increasingly intolerant of
protests in any form and at any place. So much so,
theyarewary of peopleoffering flowers toaGandhi
statue, as happened in Lucknow on October 2.
P
tructural reforms were impera-
tive in agriculture sector. The
objectives of current reforms
are commendable. The bills to
allow the private market and to
enthuse and institute contract
farming look promising and
progressive in their very intent.
However implementation
and design issues still remain
central. There have been pro-
tests due to the vested interest,
ideological reasons and spon-
sored misinformation. I am not
going in that debate.
I want to take this conversa-
tion to an altogether different
level. My limited observations
relatetothecomprehensionand
evaluation of the above reforms
through the gender lens. The ef-
fort is to construct a perspective
from the women centric ap-
proach and thus to highlight the
gaps in expectations from wom-
en empowerment angle.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s address that called for
women led development instead
of women-friendly development
echoes in my mind while writ-
ing this article. Policies and re-
forms thus should reflect wom-
en-led approach.
Agriculture, the world over
is feminized. Women farmers
and women workers in the ag-
riculture, especially for the sub-
sistence agriculture remain
invisible. There is a large range
of academic work which high-
lights this issue of non enumer-
ation or invisibility including
my own writings.
More than 425 million wom-
en contribute to agriculture
globally, yet they don’t have
equality in terms of land own-
ership rights in more than 92
countries. Feminization of ag-
riculture is a worldwide trend
especially in the low technolo-
gy subsets where labour inten-
sive production is women cen-
tric for obvious reasons.
They contribute in subsist-
ence farming too in a large way
yet remain invisible as contri-
butions.
Around 80% of the entire
farm work is carried out by
women in India. They are 45%
of the labour force but own
only 2% of the land legally. 34%
women are cultivators and 48%
agricultural laborers. This ex-
cludes subsistent work. Despite
such dominant numbers they
are already disadvantaged in
wage, land rights, representa-
tion in local farmers organisa-
tion and other agency assets
which translate in negative ex-
ternalities. Structural con-
straints for women empower-
ment are real and need to be
addressed.
How the new reforms are ad-
dressing these pre-existing dis-
tortion in an emerging agri
market which they perceive
and advocate remains unclear.
Farmers are perceived as a
homogeneous category in these
new reforms while women’s
disadvantages remain unad-
dressed. No wonder there is no
debate on this issue in the en-
tire noise of criticism or advo-
cacy. Women farmers or agri
workersneedspecialfocus,treat-
ment,support,handholdingand
mostimportantlythestructured
reforms need to address the gen-
dered issues in Indian agricul-
ture.
Lack of land entitlements
leads to lack of institutional
credit,pensions,rightstosourc-
es of water and other inputs
and technology access. Even
production relations and bar-
gaining capacities which are
the essence of open markets are
uniquel. The deep rooted sys-
temic gendered issues obvi-
ously distort the distribution of
benefits and operations of mar-
kets on which the current re-
forms heavily rely. No special
regulatory mechanism exists to
insert these gendered concerns.
Womens farmers entitlement
issues need a fundamental de-
bate and formalization. Land
rights discrimination need to
be addressed and seen as viola-
tion of human rights as high-
lighted by UN resolutions.
Necessarylegislativesupport
and infrastructure is required
for implementation of the spirit
of equality in land rights. Na-
tional women’s policy by the
Ministry underlined the impor-
tance of land rights for the eco-
nomic empowerment. NCW has
also done some work in this di-
rection but much more is need-
ed.
Issues related to control and
ownershipandtenancyarecom-
plex issues but they are very
crucial to the empowerment of
women engaged in agriculture.
I intend to voice the urgency in
the context of new reform.
Thus when we claim these re-
formsarethewatershedmoment
forIndianagriculturewhichwill
unshackle 43% of India’s work-
force that is engaged in agricul-
ture, do we picture the 80% wom-
en engaged in agriculture that
are already marginalized? Do we
consider the importance of the
implications of reforms in the
process empowerment of rural
women? I doubt we do!
What bargaining capacities
these marginalised women will
have in the new mechanism of
contract farming, FPOs and
their leadership is questiona-
ble. Whether they would experi-
ence income expansion is also
to be investigated. They are low
on technology ladder, assets,
leadership and agency.
How these gaps are to be ad-
dressed in reformed markets is
unclear and thus a cause of
concern.
States can thus come forward
and translate these arrange-
mentsindesigninggendersensi-
tive mechanisms leading to bet-
ter empowerment indicators.
NITI Ayog could play a vital role
here in providing insights.
The benefits of reforms
should reach the doorsteps of
the women farmers too as their
lives need transformation too.
They are the real Annapurnas.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
AGRI REFORMS
THROUGH GENDER LENS
S
The bills to
allow the
private market
and to enthuse
and institute
contract
farming look
promising and
progressive in
their very
intent.
MORE THAN 425
MILLION WOMEN
CONTRIBUTE TO
AGRICULTURE
GLOBALLY, YET THEY
DON’T HAVE EQUALITY
IN TERMS OF LAND
OWNERSHIP RIGHTS IN
MORE THAN 92
COUNTRIES.
DR. JYOTI
KIRAN SHUKLA
FORMER CHAIRPERSON OF.
STATE FINANCE COMMISSION
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New Delhi: Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah on Wednesday ex-
tended greetings to the
Rapid Action Force
(RAF) personnel and
their families on the
force’s 28th anniversary.
In a tweet, Shah said
the RAF has distin-
guished itself in dealing
with the challenges re-
lating to law and order.
“Greetings to RAF
personnel and their
families on their 28th
anniversary. The RAF
has distinguished itself
in dealing with the chal-
lenges relating to law
and order. Time and
again, their commit-
ment in several human-
itarian works and Unit-
ed Nations peacekeep-
ing missions has made
India proud,” the Home
Minister tweeted.
The RAF, a special-
ised wing of the
CRPF, was raised in Oct
1992 initially with 10
unattached battalions
and increased with 5
more units on January
1, 2018.
These units were set
up to deal with riots and
riot-like situations, to
instill confidence
amongst all sections of
the society and also,
handle internal securi-
ty duty.—ANI
RAF’S 28TH ANNIVERSARY
HM Amit Shah greets
personnel, their familiesThese units were set up to deal with riots, to instill confidence
amongst all sections of society & to handle internal security duty
IRCTC’S TEJAS EXPRESS TO
RESUME SERVICES FROM OCT 17
New Delhi: IRCTC said
that it will restart the first
set of “private” Tejas Ex-
press trains from October
17, seven months after
the Lucknow-New Delhi
and Ahmedabad-Mumbai
services were suspended
due to corona pandemic.
It said every alternate
seat on the two trains will
be kept vacant to ensure
social distancing and pas-
sengers will be thermally
screened before entering
the coach.They will be
provided a “COVID-19
protection kit”. “Use of
face covers/masks will be
mandatory for passengers
and staff. All travellers will
install Arogya Setu app.
Detailed instructions will
be given to passengers at
the time of ticket booking,
IRCTC said.
WRESTLER BABITA PHOGAT QUITS
GOVT JOB TO JOIN POLITICS
Chandigarh: Wrestler Babita Phogat resigned
from the post of deputy director in Haryana
government’s sports department. Babita and
kabaddi player Kavita Devi were appointed deputy
directors on July 30.Babita said she had resigned
as she wants to devote full time to active politics.
“I have decided to campaign for BJP in Bihar
assembly elections and Baroda bypoll in Haryana.
Politics is not new for our family. My mother had
served as village sarpanch and I learnt politics
and wrestling during my childhood,” she said.
UP MAN KILLS PREGNANT
14-YR-OLD DAUGHTER: COPS
Shahjahanpur: In a suspected case of dishonour
killing, a 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly killed
by her father with the help of her elder brother
after she became pregnant and refused to tell
them who the father of the child was. “The matter
came to light on Tuesday when villagers found
the body of a girl with her head cut off in Dul-
hapur village in Sidhauli area and informed the
police,” SP, S Anand said. “During the probe it
was found that she was six months pregnant and
the father of the girl was interrogated,” he said.
SENSEX RALLIES 304 PTS; NIFTY
TOPS 11,700, SAY TRADE EXPERTS
Mumbai: Equity bench-
mark Sensex rallied
304 points on Wednes-
day, tracking gains in
index-heavyweights
Reliance Industries, HDFC
twins and Infosys. After
opening on a weak note,
the 30-share index gained
ground to end 304.38
points or 0.77 per cent
higher at 39,878.95.
Similarly, the broader NSE
Nifty jumped 76.45 points
or 0.66 per cent to close
at 11,738.85. Titan was
the top gainer in the Sen-
sex pack, climbing over 4
per cent, followed by Bajaj
Auto, Maruti, Reliance
Industries, ONGC and
UltraTech Cement. On the
other hand, Bajaj Finance,
PowerGrid, Tata Steel,
NTPC and Sun Pharma
were among the laggards.
AMIT SHAH
@AmitShah
October 7 is a very
important day in the
country’s history.
In 2001, on this
very same day PM
Narendra Modi had
taken oath as the
Gujarat Chief Minister,
and from that day the
journey of daily setting
new milestones in
the interest of the
nation and service of
the people, without
stopping, without
relaxing started. 20th
year of NaMO.
New Delhi: The Cen-
tral Board of Direct
Taxes (CBDT) has is-
sued refunds of over Rs
1,21,607 crore to more
than 35.93 lakh taxpay-
ers between April 1,
2020, and October 6,
2020, said the Income
Tax Department on
Wednesday.
The department said
that Income tax refunds
of Rs 33,238 crore have
been issued in 34,09,246
cases. It further added
that corporate tax re-
funds of Rs 88,370 crore
have been issued in
1,83,773 cases.
“On further consid-
eration of genuine dif-
ficulties being faced by
taxpayers due to Cov-
id-19 situation, CBDT
further extends the due
date for furnishing of
belated & revised ITRs
for Assessment Yr 2019-
20 from September 30,
2020, to November 30,
2020. Order u/s 119(2a)
issued,” the CBDT had
tweeted. —ANI
Direct tax refunds of over
`1.21L cr issued since Apr
EDarrestsCFO,internal
auditor of Cox & Kings
New Delhi: The En-
forcement Directorate
arrested Anil Khandel-
wal, chief financial of-
ficer of global tours
and travel company
Cox and Kings Group
(CKG) in connection
with the Yes Bank
money laundering
probe, the agency said
in a statement. Besides
Khandelwal, the agen-
cy also arrested Nar-
esh Jain, the group’s
internal auditor. The
arrests have been
made under section 19
of the Prevention of
Money Laundering
Act, 2002 (PMLA).
Both the accused
were produced before
the Special Judge and
were granted seven
days of ED custody.
The ED had claimed
that the firm defaulted
on loan payments
worth Rs 3,642 crore.
During the seven-day
custody, ED officials
intend to grill the two
in relation with the ir-
regularities and col-
lect more evidence.
Earlier this year, the
ED conducted raids at
premises belonging to
the senior manage-
ment of Cox and Kings
Group (CKG) .
On March 8, the
agency arrested the
bank’s former chair-
man and managing
director Rana Kapoor.
The travel company
was sent to bankrupt-
cy court last year in
October after default-
ing on payments to the
bank. The ED had
been scanning its
transactions to its
borrowers.
MLA probe in Yes
Bank case revealed
that the CKG forged it’s
consolidated finan-
cials by manipulating
the balance sheets of
overseas subsidiaries.
Besides, some board
resolutions submitted
to banks for sanction-
ing the loans were also
found to be forged.
“Further probe re-
vealed that loan sanc-
tion from Yes bank was
driven by Kapoor and
was given bypassing
norms. ED gathered
evidence regarding
Kapoor’s direction to
the concerned bank of-
ficials to get the said
loan continued and not
to take efforts to recov-
er it.” —PTI
YES BANK CASE
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court sought the
Centre and the AAP
government’s response
on an inter-faith cou-
ple’s plea challenging
the provision of issuing
a public notice to invite
objections to marriages
under the Special Mar-
riage Act (SMA).
A bench of Chief Jus-
tice DN Patel and Jus-
tice Prateek Jalan is-
sued notice to the Min-
istry of Law and the
Delhi government,
seeking their stand on
the petition that con-
tends the 30-day notice
period discourages in-
ter-faith couples from
getting married. The
bench listed the matter
for further hearing on
November 27.
Advocate Utkarsh
Singh, appearing for
the couple, said there is
no such provision un-
der personal laws with
regard to same-faith
marriages.
The Central govern-
ment’s standing coun-
sel, Monika Arora, said
similar pleas have been
filed by an NGO,
Dhanak for Humanity,
and it appears to be be-
hind the present peti-
tion as well.
However, the bench
said the petition raises
legal issues which need
consideration and
asked Ms Arora to men-
tion her objections in
her reply to the plea.
The petition con-
tends that some objec-
tions, like unsound-
ness of mind of either
party or they not hav-
ing attained the age of
marriage, that can be
raised under section 4
of the Act “can be as-
certained on the basis
of certificates issued
from a government
hospital or any pre-
scribed authority”.
The plea says 30-day
notice period inviting
objections to marriage
directly impinge on the
fundamental rights of
the petitioners.It urged
court to declare as “il-
legal, null, void and un-
constitutional” the pro-
visions of the Act.
HC seeks govt’s
response over plea
against SMA
New Delhi: Claim-
ing that the “upper
storey” of Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
is empty, Union Min-
ister Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi said that Ra-
hul wouldn’t even
know the difference
between different
crops and when they
are sown and har-
vested. Speaking to
ANI about Rahul
Gandhi’s offensive
on the new farm
laws, Naqvi said,
“Someone should tell
Pappu, that this is
not the mummy ji or
Manmohan ji gov-
ernment that when
the Parliament pass-
es a Bill, you tear it in
front of the people
and call it non-sense
or nuisance”.
He said that this is
PM Modi-led govern-
ment, which works
forbenefitof farmers,
poor and the neglect-
ed sections of the so-
ciety with conviction,
he said. —ANI
RaGa doesn’t
know when
crops are
sown: Naqvi
New Delhi: The Prime
Minister should break
his silence and come
out to face the many
questions being asked
in the country, said
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi on Wednesday.
Taking a jibe at the re-
cent visit of PM Modi
to inaugurate the Atal
Tunnel, Rohtang in Ut-
tarakhand, the Con-
gress leader said, “PM
Ji, stop waving hands
in the tunnel alone,
break your silence.
Face the questions, the
country is asking
many things from
you,” the tweet read.
The Wayanad MP
shared a clip from his
Tuesday’s press con-
ference in Punjab in
which he had advised
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on several is-
sues, ranging from
COVID-19 manage-
ment, to farm laws,
and the Hathras inci-
dent. He had also said
yesterday that PM
Modi in order to “save
his image had handed
over 1,200 sq km of In-
dian territory to Chi-
na.” He had also de-
manded the PM to
speak to the media
over the several issues
which are currently
gripping the nation.
Earlier yesterday, Gan-
dhi had said that Con-
gress’ ‘Kheti Bachao
Yatra’ is against the
‘kaala kanoon’, which
will destroy the exist-
ing structure of agri-
culture in the coun-
try, affecting Punjab
and Haryana most
severely. —Agencies
‘PM MODI NEEDS TO
ANSWERTHENATION’
RAHUL GANDHI@Rahul Gandhi
“PM Ji, stop waving hands in the tun-
nel alone, break your silence. Face the
questions, the country is asking many things
from you,”
IN THE COURTYARD
CASE SO FAR
New Delhi: Election
Commission of India
(ECI) has revised the
norms concerning
star campaigners for
all ongoing and future
elections during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“The maximum
limit on the number
of star campaigners
for recognized Nation-
al/State political par-
ties shall be 30 in place
of 40 and for unrecog-
nized registered po-
litical parties it shall
be 15 in place of 20
during the period of
pandemic.”
Accordingly, period
of submission of the
list of star campaign-
ers is extended from 7
days to 10 days from
the date of notifica-
tion, the norms read.
Political parties,
which have already
submitted a list of star
campaigners shall re-
submit a revised list
within the stipulated
period, it states. “Re-
quest for permission
for campaigning by
star campaigners
shall be submitted to
district election au-
thorities at least 48
hours before start of
campaign so all neces-
sary safety measures
are put in place,” ECI
stated. —ANI
Bihar polls: ECI reduces no of
star campaigners due to Covid
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WILL JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ BE
CJ OF MP HIGH COURT?
Name of Odisha HC Chief Justice, Justice Mo-
hammad Rafiq has started doing the round for
the post of CJ of Madhya Pradesh. He hails from
Rajasthan.
MS ANURADHA PRASAD
IS ALSO DG, ESIC
Ms. Anuradha Prasad has been assigned an addi-
tional charge of Director General (DG), Employees’
State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for a period of
three months. She is a 1986 batch IDAS officer.
JAIDEEP MAZUMDAR IS NEW
AMBASSADOR TO HOLY SEE
Jaideep Mazumdar, (IFS: 1989), presently Ambas-
sador of India to Austria, has been concurrently
accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the
Holy See, with residence in Vienna.
16 IRS OFFICERS OF IT &
CUSTOMS CADRES DEPUTED AS
DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN ED
As many as 16 IRS officers of both Income Tax and
Customs cadres have been appointed as Deputy
Director in ED on deputation basis. The officers are:
Shraiy Suri, Arpita D Naharya, Arun Kumar, Gaurav
Bharill, Rahul Singhania, Prashant Kumar, Ramadhan
Dagar, Neha Yadav, Neeraj Gupta, Bhuvnesh Kumar
Tiwari, Ajay Luhach, Madhur D Singh, Sachin Kumar,
Mohan babu, Devranjan Mishra & Shubham Agarwal.
SWARUP KUMAR SAHA APPOINTED ED, PNB
Swarup Kumar Saha has been appointed Execu-
tive Director, Punjab National Bank.
SATYAN NARAYAN RAJU APPOINTED
ED, CANARA BANK
K Satya Narayana Raju has been appointed Execu-
tive Director, Canara Bank.
AGNI MITRA APPOINTED REGIONAL
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, WCCB
Agni Mitra has been appointed Regional Dy Direc-
tor, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Eastern Region,
Kolkata. He is 2009 batch IFS of AGMUT cadre.
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Journalist, 3...
According to police, in
Mathura, all the four
held are allegedly
linked with Popular
Front of India’s (PFI)
student wing Campus
Front of India (CFI)
and were coming from
Delhi and moving to-
wards Hathras in a car
and were stopped, said
police.
The UP government
has maintained that
there is a conspiracy to
whip up caste and com-
munal violence in the
state and the Hathras
police are now investi-
gating a conspiracy an-
gle in the case, which
has created a political
storm. The FIR has
been registered under
section 153-A of IPC
(promoting enmity be-
tween two groups),
295A of IPC (deliberate
and malicious act in-
tended to outrage feel-
ings) 124 (A) (Sedition)
beside section 17 and 14
of Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act 1967
and Sections 65, 72 and
76 of Information
Technology Act.
It further said that
money transfer was
not through lawful
method and the money
so gathered from inter-
national sources was to
cause riots. It was al-
leged that pamphlets
‘Am I Not India’s
Daughter’ were to
serve these unlawful
purposes.
Chemistry
Queens...
extremely high preci-
sion. This technology
has had a revolution-
ary impact on the life
sciences, is contribut-
ing to new cancer ther-
apies, and may make
the dream of curing
inherited diseases
come true,” it added.
Public spaces...
Protest is a fundemen-
tal right, it is subject to
reasonable restric-
tions.
On March 23, the
Shaheen Bagh sit-in
protest against the citi-
zenship law was
cleared by Delhi police
after curbs were im-
posed on assembly and
movement of people in
wake of the coronavi-
rus pandemic. The pro-
test had been on for
more than 100 days.
Rhea Breathes...
Rhea Chakraborty will
“spend her night after a
month in her own bed,”
Rhea Chakraborty’s
lawyer Satish
Maneshinde said.
While granting bail
to Rhea Chakraborty,
the Bombay High
Court all but demol-
ished the Narcotics
Control Bureau’s case
against the 28-year-old
actor, who was accused
of being “an active
member of a drug syn-
dicate”. The High
Court said she was not
a part of a chain of
drug dealers.
The order also noted
that the investigation
had found Sushant Sin-
gh Rajput used to pro-
cure drugs and many
others helped him.
“Since she has no
criminal antecedents,
there are reasonable
grounds for believing
that she is not likely to
commit any offence
while on bail,” the or-
der said. Rhea is ac-
cused of buying drugs
for her boyfriend Sush-
ant Singh Rajput. The
High Court said “sim-
ply providing money
for a particular trans-
action or other trans-
actions will not be fi-
nancing of that activi-
ty” and allegations of
spending money in
procuring drugs for Su-
shant Singh Rajput “do
not mean that she had
financed illicit traffic.”
The court also noted
that the actor’s charges
did not involve com-
mercial quantity of
drugs. In her bail peti-
tion, Rhea had said
that she and her broth-
er were sole targets of
a witch-hunt by multi-
ple agencies who had
found no evidence in-
criminating her.
Investigations into
Sushant Singh Ra-
jput’s death, which
started with a suicide
probe, have taken wild
twists and turns over
the past few months.
The CBI took over the
case after Rajput’s fa-
ther accused Rhea of
mentally harassing
the actor. —Agencies
FROM PG 1
New Delhi: The Cabi-
net Committee on Eco-
nomic Affairs (CCEA)
on Wednesday ap-
proved "natural gas
marketing reforms"
with the decisions
aimed at providing a
standard procedure
for sale of natural gas
in a transparent and
competitive manner to
discover market price
through e-bidding.
Briefing reporters
after the cabinet meet-
ing, Union Petroleum
and Natural Gas Minis-
ter Dharmendra Prad-
han said the cabinet
has approved a stand-
ardised e-bidding pro-
cess to make natural
gas pricing mecha-
nism transparent.
"The government is
investing Rs 4,00,000
crores for building gas
infrastructure. Our de-
pendency on imported
fossil fuels is decreas-
ing. To make natural
gas pricing mecha-
nism transparent, the
Cabinet today ap-
proved a standardised
e-bidding process,"
Pradhan said.
He said Director-
General Hydrocarbon
(DGH) will suggest a
panel of e-bidding
platform in front of
producers.
"Guidelines will be
made for e-bidding.
Provisions will be kept
to maintain clarity and
transparency. Produc-
ers will have the choice
to choose a platform.
The producing compa-
ny cannot participate
in the bidding process
as there can be a con-
flict of interest," Prad-
han informed the me-
dia.—ANI
CCEAAPPROVESNATURALGAS
MARKETING REFORMS
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
will launch a ‘Jan an-
dolan’ campaign for
Covid appropriate be-
haviour on Thursday in
view of upcoming festi-
vals, winter season and
opening up of the econ-
omy. PM Modi will
launch the campaign by
way of a tweet, a release
issued by the Ministry
of Information and
Broadcasting said.
The campaign will be
launched with the aim
to encourage people’s
participation and it en-
deavours to be a low-
cost high-intensity cam-
paign with the key mes-
sage of wear mask, fol-
low physical distancing,
maintain hand hygiene.
The campaign will be
launched in view of the
upcoming festivals and
winter season as well as
the opening up of the
economy, the statement
said. A Covid-19 pledge
will be taken by all and
a concerted action plan
will be implemented by
central government
ministries, depart-
ments, state govern-
ments and UTs.
NHRC urges
action to protect
victims of covid-19
New Delhi: The Na-
tional Human Rights
Commission (NHRC)
has released an adviso-
ry suggesting urgent
action to protect the vic-
tims of the COVID-19
pandemic, including
children.
“Urgent action is re-
quired taking into ac-
count the constitution-
al obligations, domes-
tic laws, the UNCRC’s
general principles and
the SDGs to safeguard
the lives and dignity of
39% of India’s popula-
tion which was impact-
ed due to the pandem-
ic,” the NHRC said.
According to the
Commission, there are
reports of increased
violence against chil-
dren, both physical and
sexual, child marriage,
and child trafficking.
Cases of child abuse
and safety increasing
during lockdown is evi-
denced by the increase
in calls to helplines.
Concerns regarding the
health and safety status
of children in Child
Care Institutions (CCIs)
including the specific
risk of being infected
with Corona as well as
barriers to children’s
access to justice as im-
posed by the lockdown
were also reported.
“State action must
balance out the dis-
criminatory impact of
COVID-19 on children
such that increased vul-
nerabilities are ad-
dressed promptly,”
NHRC reiterated. —ANI
PM TO LAUNCH ‘JAN ANDOLAN’ FOR
COVID-19 APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR
Nagar Nigam workers spray disinfectant to sanitize the civil line area as a preventive measure amid
the coronavirus pandemic, in Prayagraj on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Guidelines will be made for e-bid-
ding. Provisions will be kept to
maintain clarity and transparen-
cy. Producers will have the choice to choose
a platform
—Dharmendra Pradhan, Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister
India’s
recovery
rate leaps
past 85%
New Delhi: India’s
COVID-19 recovery
rate leapt past 85 per
cent on Wednesday
with 82,203 con-
firmed recoveries in
the last 24 hours,
the Union Ministry
of Health and Family
Welfare (MoHFW)
informed.
The total number
of recoveries in the
country now stands
at 57,44,693, while
72,049 new cases
were reported in the
last 24 hours, taking
the total number
of active cases to
9,07,883 which is
13.44 per cent of
the positive cases in
the country. As per
MoHFW, the number
of recovered cases
is 6.32 times the
number of active
cases.—ANI
THE CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS
SEC urged to hold local
bodies polls in phases
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ajasthan is con-
sidered to be a
tourist state
with such a strong in-
frastructure of tour-
ism that viruses like
Swine Flu, Zika, An-
thrax and Sars could
not put it off track.
However, the Corona-
virus pandemic cer-
tainly brought the
mighty heritage tour-
ism to its knees.
There are more
than 10 lakh people who
are directly or indirect-
ly dependent on the
tourist trade in the
state which include the
small vendors, hawk-
ers, tourist guides, ma-
hauts, folk artists and
big hotels resorts etc.
CM Ashok Gehlot re-
alised this quite early
that all these people
were severely affected
due to the ongoing co-
rona crisis and there-
fore without losing
time he instructed PS
(Tourism) Alok Gupta
along with all other
senior officials to take
necessary steps to
make Rajasthan a safe
and healthy tourist
destination as soon as
possible.
The tourism depart-
ment is very clearly
focused on increasing
the domestic tourists
up to the maximum
possible number so
that the good start that
the tourist season has
witnessed in the begin-
ning of October is con-
tinued till the end of
the tourist season.
Putting Pandemic behind, Raj opens up for tourists!
Tourism department is focused on increasing
the domestic tourists so that the season sees a
promising start, writes Nirmal Tiwari
BIGGEST DRAWS!
Nahargarh and Amber fort
in Jaipur were the biggest
tourist attractions in the
state with former attract-
ing more than 18,000 and
latter being host to more
than 20,500 tourists in the
month. Besides Jaipur,
Alwar, Gagron fort and
Chittorgarh were the biggest
attractions in the state.
PANDEMIC INDUCED
CLOSURE
The pandemic lead to
closure of all historical
monuments & museums,
national & biological parks
and safaris on March 18.
Apart from this the other
stakeholders like hotels,
resorts and restaurants were
also closed which led to the
loss of hundreds of crores of
rupees to the state tourism.
DESTINATION TOURISTS
The reopening of the tourist destination started with
unlock phase 1 on June 1 but the entire month of
June could only attract 5269 tourists to the Pink
City while minuscule 3537 tourists visited the rest
of the state. The onset of monsoon increased the
number of tourists in the state although it was
nothing compared to yesteryears but it was a sol-
ace to have 19326 tourists in the state out of which
12665 visited Jaipur while 6661 visited the rest
of the state. The month of August witnessed the
arrival of 42600 tourists in the capital while 13093
tourists visited the rest of the state.
COME SEPTEMBER!
It was the month of September with the begin-
ning of tourist season officially from September 1
that the real arrival of the tourists started in this
state this year. September saw as many as 56,931
tourists visiting Jaipur while 27,904 thronged the
other tourist destinations of the state. The total
number of tourists in September for the state
stood at 84,835 which was 30,000 more than the
total number of tourists in August. It is expected
that the number of tourists will cross 1 lakh in the
month of October.
Ashish
Jaipur: Rajasthan
Election Commission
on Wednesday held a
meeting with home and
police departments to
discuss deployment of
police personnel in elec-
tion duty during the up-
coming elections of lo-
cal bodies and panchay-
at samities.
Various issues relat-
ed to deployment were
discussed in the meet-
ing chaired by the state
election commissioner
PS Mehra.
He asked the officials
to ensure deployment
of policemen in the ar-
eas, where elections
will take place, in ade-
quate numbers so that
the law and order could
be maintained.
The department offi-
cials proposed the com-
mission to hold elec-
tions in municipal cor-
porations, Zila Pari-
shad and panchayat
samitis in phases.
The commissioner
said that a rise in the
number of polling
booths is likely in the
upcoming elections of
municipal corporations
of Jaipur, Jodhpur and
Kota and therefore the
arrangements for po-
licemen will have to be
done accordingly.
ADG (law and order)
Saurabh Srivastata as-
sured the commission
that the elections will
be held in a peaceful
manner. Special secre-
tary (home) V Saravana
Kumar and secretary of
the commission Shyam
Singh Rajpurohit were
present in the meeting.
Abhishek Srivastava
Jaipur: Theoldglorious
days of Jaipur Develop-
ment Authority (JDA)
might return soon as its
Commissioner IAS of-
ficer Gaurav Goyal has
taken on the challenge
of improving the finan-
cial condition of the de-
velopment body.
The JDA’s financial
condition was in a bad
shape when Goyal took
charge of the post of
JDA Commissioner in
the first week of July
this year.
Goyal considered it
as a challenge and fo-
cused all his attention
on strengthening the
JDA’s economic posi-
tion.
It is with efforts of
Goyal and his team, Un-
der a close supervision
of UDH minister Shanti
Dhariwal, that the JDA
generated Rs 311 crores
as revenue from the
auction and lottery of
the plots in three
months from July to
September while aver-
age Rs 92 crores were
earned during last
some financial year.
This has enabled the
JDA to issue adminis-
trative and financial ap-
proval for development
works at a cost of Rs 107
crores on a large scale
after eight months. In
the last some financial
years, this figure was
Rs 168 crores average.
Infact Goyal is lucky to
have a dynamic and per-
forming UDH minister
like Dhariwal and even
Goyal acknowledges
that.
“This achievement is
not of my own but of
the entire team of our
JDA officials. It has
been made possible by
the untiring efforts of
this team. On the direc-
tion of minister Shanti
Dhariwal, JDA will
soon start large infra-
structure projects for
the city,” said Goyal.
A total of 85 new works
have been approved in
three months whereas
193 new works were
sanctioned in the last
financial year. The re-
solve of Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot to priori-
tise e-governance to
eliminate corruption
has also been well real-
ized in these three
months.
Online leases of 3,713
plots have been issued
in three months from
July to September. JDA
will launch three more
new schemes till
Navratri in view of the
response of the public
to the recently an-
nounced four schemes.
In these four schemes,
e-auction of around 300
corner plots will also be
started from October 15.
Gul Mohammed
Kota: Condolences con-
tinue to pour in for Lok
Sabha Speaker Om Bir-
la whose father
Shrikrishna Birla
passed away recently.
On Wednesday as well
many public represent-
atives, politicians and
people from all walks of
life reached Birla’s
Dada Bari residence in
Kota and offered floral
tributes to late
Shrikrishna Birla. For-
mer MP Ramesh Chand
Tomar, Bhind MP Sand-
hyaSumanRai,Gwalior
MP Vijay Narayan, for-
mer minister Babulal
Verma, former MP
Chintamani Malviya,
former minister Arun
Chaturvedi, industrial-
ist Jagdish Joshi were
among prominent peo-
ple who offered condo-
lences. Former MoS
Sushil Katara, BJP
state Gen Secy Bhajan-
lal Sharma and Con-
gress state Gen Secy
Chhagan Mahoor also
paid their respects.
Arun Chaturvedi and
Bhajan Lal Sharma re-
membered late Birla’s
stellar role in the coop-
eratives movement and
called it inspiring for
generations to come.
Apart from these
large number of people
belonging to various so-
cial and religious or-
ganisations and politi-
cal parties also offered
their attributes at the
Birla residence.
JDA’s lost glory returning, gradually!
Public representatives, politicians among others
continue to visit Kota to console Speaker Birla
KKR BEATS CSK BY 10 RUNS
MS Dhoni, captain of Chennai Super Kings gets clean-bowled during IPL 2020 cricket match
against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
PS Mehra, Saurabh Srivastava, V Saravan Kumar and Shyam Singh Rajpurohit during the meeting
Shanti Dhariwal Gaurav Goyal
Bhajan Lal, Arun Chaturvedi, Chhagan Mahoor offering
condolences to Om Birla in Kota on Wednesday.
THE OVERBURDENED
BABU!
IAS Siddharth Mahajan is
confused and bamboozled.
Although he has been given the
responsibility of Food Department
but he is unhappy with the
additional charge of the Panchayati
Raj department. He already
has additional charge of two
departments - Relief and Planning.
And now he has additional
charge of total four departments.
Siddharth, a 2003 batch IAS
officer, has become Secretary in
January 2020 and although he
is not too senior a bureaucrat,
it is surprising that he has been
given responsibility of important
departments like planning, food,
panchayati raj and relief. During the
initial days of Corona pandemic, he
worked in challenging situations
and circumstances in the food
department, but he was transferred
in July. However, when his
replacement - Hemant Gera- could
not perform in the department,
Siddharth was brought back. The
burden of excessive responsibilities
on Siddharth is definitely wrong
and although he has approached
the senior officials and requested
that his load be brought down,
any relief seems far away. Truth be
told, Siddharth wants to go to Delhi
and even he has been chosen to
become OSD to Lok Sabha speaker
Om Birla, yet the file on this issue
is awaiting clearance from the CMO
for the past eight months.
KYA KAREIN, KYA NA
KAREIN!
IAS Alok Gupta was as troubled
in the past as he is now.
The reason for his situation
being non-appointment of any
officer on posts under Gupta in
the Tourism department. The
responsibility of Director Tourism
and MD RTDC was also on Gupta
and he was ‘one in all’ in the
department. But now the state
government has posted an IAS
- Vikas Sitaramji Bhale - on both
these posts, who is a ‘renowned’
and controversial officer. When
he was Director in Agriculture
department, his ‘acts’ were too
well known and the then ACS
(Agriculture) Pawan Kumar Goyal
had ran from pillar to post and
got Bhale removed from Krishi
Bhawan. Bhale is a 1999 batch
IAS and is just three years junior
to Alok Gupta whereas the posts
held by Bhale now - Director
Tourism and MD RTDC - has
had officers several years junior.
Under such a situation, Alok
Gupta may face several problems
in coordinating with Bhale and
getting him to work. Alok Gupta
was troubled for not having any
officer under him in the past, now
he is more troubled for having
such an officer under him! In fact
Bhale is likely to be a challenge
before his boss, a low profile and
soft spoken Alok Gupta.
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WILL INVESTIGATION REACH PILOT’S DOORSTEP?
Naveen Sharma
Jaipur: The new DG
for ACB BL Soni took
the charge of his new
assignment after tak-
ing blessings from Lord
Ganesh at the Moti
Dungri Ganesh temple.
Speaking to the
media, DG Soni said
that in accordance
with the zero toler-
ance for corruption
policy of the state
government, he will
try to common peo-
ple’s access to the bu-
reau easier. He said
along with continu-
ing the good work be-
ing done at the bu-
reau, more corrupt
government person-
nel will be identified.
Soni said he would
also be open to sug-
gestions from the
common people to
make the work of
ACB more efficient.
Soni said that his 5
year working experi-
ence with apex agency
like CBI is going to
come in handy for him,
while working at ACB.
He assured the people
that he would immedi-
ately take action on
every matter brought
to his notice.
Later, the new ACB
DG visited ACB head-
quarters where he met
all the outpost incharg-
es who welcomed him
ceremoniously.
ACB DIG Sawai
Singh Godara, SP Yo-
gesh Dadheech,
Harendra Mahawar
along with other of-
ficers were also pre-
sent at the occasion.
ACB ADG Dinesh
MN, who was not in
the office, called up
DG BL Soni on phone
and congratulated
him.
Act with sensitivity in crimes
against women, says CM Gehlot
Shivendra Pramar
Jaipur: Going from
strength to strength, Ra-
jasthan Housing Board
(RHB) has yet again
proved that better man-
agement can help to
overcome economic
slump and financial
woes brought by the Co-
ronapandemic.Thiswas
evident on Wednesday
when the RHB sold off a
nine square meter shop
in Madhuban Scheme at
Jodhpuratninetimesits
listed price! The list
pricefortheshopwasRs
6.75lakh,however,itwas
sold off for Rs 49 lakh!
Similarly, another 9 sq
mt shop in the same
scheme, with a list price
of Rs 6.30 lakh, was sold
off for Rs 17.33 lakh ie
two and a half times the
list price. On this
Wednesday,theRHBsold
a total of 286 properties
generating a revenue of
Rs 41 crore.
“People were excited
to take part in the ‘Apni
Dukaan - Apna Vyavs-
aay’ scheme of the RHB.
On the first Wednesday
of this scheme total 185
commercial properties
were sold generating
26.57 crore rupees in rev-
enue. Moreover, 101 resi-
dential properties under
the Wednesday Auction
were also sold off which
brought another 14.25
crore rupees in revenue
to the RHB’s kitty,” said
Pawan Arora, Commis-
sioner, RHB.
Launched by CM Ge-
hlot a week back, the
scheme has sold off
properties worth 27
crore rupees in its first
week and therefore it is
already a success on its
first day!
RHB ‘records’ highest
single property return!
Will make layman’s access to
ACB easier: Soni takes charge
Subham Jain
Ajmer: Health minis-
ter Raghu Sharma on
Wednesday said that
the state government’s
movement against co-
rona was started be-
cause people had be-
come careless towards
the virus spread.
Sharma said that
therecoveryrateinthe
state is 85-86 percent
which is highest in top
big states of the coun-
trywhilethedeathrate
is 1 percent, lowest in
the country.
Because of this, the
minister said, people
became careless and
therefore the state gov-
ernment launched a
mass movement
againstcoronatomake
peopleaware.Themin-
ister said that 1 crore
masks will be distrib-
uted under the cam-
paign and various oth-
er activities are being
undertaken to create
awareness.
Sharma along with
the minister in charge
of Ajmer and agricul-
ture minister Lal-
chand Kataria was in
Ajmer on Wednesday.
During the visit,
boththeministersheld
a meeting with district
level officers and dis-
cussed various issues
like water, electricity,
road etc. They also
flagged off an aware-
ness rally and distrib-
uted masks.
Sharma, while talk-
ing to reporters, reject-
ed allegations that the
government was hid-
ingthefigurerelatedto
coronavirus.
Agriculture minis-
ter Kataria said that a
girdawari report is be-
ing prepared to assess
the losses to crops and
report is awaited.
He said that the af-
fected farmers will get
compensation.
Raghu, Kataria flag off
corona rally in Ajmer
Dr Raghu Sharma, Lalchand Kataria release poster for corona
awareness drive. Rakesh Pareek, Suresh Tank, Bhavani Singh
Detha,Arushi Malik, Prakash Rajpurohit were also present.
BL Soni taking charge as DG, ACB.
CM Ashok Gehlot with Shanti Dhariwal, Govind Singh Dotasra, Pawan
Arora during launch of Super Hit ‘APNI DUKAN APNA VYAVSAY’ yojna.
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur:Sincetheshuffle
of eleven IAS officers
late on Monday night, it
appears that the bureau-
cracy has been going
through bit of a rough
weather, because, while
all 10 officers accepted
their ‘fate’, it was IAS P
Ramesh, who ‘rebelled’
against the order of his
transfer from ‘power’ to
the position of Division-
al Commissioner of
Udaipur division. The
rebellion came mainly,
duetotheongoingtussle
between Ramesh and
Ajitabh Sharma after
Ramesh laid allegations
of Sharma’s involve-
ment in a tender worth
over hundred crore ru-
pees, and submitted a
VRS application!
Through the day the
top bureaucracy and
evenCSRajeevaSwarup
madeattemptstocontact
Ramesh, to no avail and
it was late in the evening
that the CS and Ramesh
talked.Whileitappeared
as if the matter had end-
ed on Tuesday, Wednes-
daybroughtwithitfresh
‘issues’ as word spread
in bureaucratic circles
that the issue is not set-
tled. Therefore, on
Wednesday the CS spoke
to him at length on with-
drawing the VRS appli-
cation which he has not
rolled back till late
Wednesday night.
Interestingly, union
ministerGajendraSingh
Shekhawat opened a
frontagainstGehlotgovt
saying that after the gen-
eral public, now the har-
assment of bureaucracy
is out in open.
Ramesh’s VRS
‘rebellion’ looms large!
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Chief Minis-
ter Ashok Gehlot has
instructed the state po-
lice that it should take
prompt and sensitive
action in cases of
crimes against weaker
sections of society in-
cluding women and
girls. “Our government
has ensured that every
complainant is heard
in the police stations
and no complainant
has to run around for
getting an FIR regis-
tered,” Gehlot said
while reviewing vari-
ous issues related to
law and order in the
state at the Chief Min-
ister’s residence on
Wednesday night. He
held a thorough review
on the subjects of law
and order, crimes re-
lated to women, organ-
ized crimes, curbing
drug trafficking, speed-
ing up action against
mafias etc. and gave
directions to senior po-
lice officers.
“The State Govern-
ment has implemented
the policy of compulso-
rily hearing and regis-
tering FIRs which is
being continuously
monitored. There has
been a significant re-
duction in the crimes
recorded and the num-
ber of FIRs filed has
come down from 31 per-
cent to just 13 percent,”
Gehlot said.
The CM said that the
Special Investigation
Unit for Crime Against
Women set up in all 41
police districts of the
state for crimes related
to women has the ef-
fect that there has been
a significant reduction
in the time taken for
rape and POCSO cases.
“Earlier, the police
used to take 278 days
on an average in the
research of these
crimes, while this unit
has reduced time by 40
percent due to the for-
mation and monitor-
ing of this unit and
now it is taking an av-
erage time of 113
days,” Gehlot said and
directed that a letter
should be written to
the Union Home Min-
istry to make similar
arrangements in all
the states in the man-
ner in which the Ra-
jasthan Government
has compulsorily
lodged the FIRs of eve-
ry complainant in the
police stations.
Gehlot also instruct-
ed to activate CLG,
train village guards
and take their services.
During the meeting,
Principal Secretary
(Home) Abhay Kumar
informed that NL Mee-
na, Secretary (Home)
has been appointed to
investigate all the as-
pects related to the re-
cent violent develop-
ments in Dungarpur
and Khairwada of
Udaipur.
He also appreciated
the investigation done
by the police in the
rape case at Thanagaji
in Alwar.
Secretary (Home) NL Meena
appointed to investigate the
recent violence in Dungarpur
and Khairwada
CM Ashok Gehlot during the review meeting.
Board sells property
at nine times the
listed price
COVID-19
UPDATE
RAJASTHAN
1,590
DEATHS
1,50,467
CONFIRMED CASES
GUJARAT
3,531 DEATHS 1,46,672 CASES
DELHI
5,616 DEATHS 2,98,107 CASES
WORLD
10,57,836
DEATHS
3,62,74,696
CONFIRMED CASES
INDIA
68,29,678
CONFIRMED CASES
1,05,519
DEATHS
MAHARASHTRA
39,072 DEATHS 14,80,489 CASES
TAMIL NADU
9,984 DEATHS 6,35,855 CASES
KARNATAKA
9,574 DEATHS 6,68,652 CASES
From P1
Rahul being busy in par-
ty affairs during the day,
his response was not
available till Wednesday
night. Pilot camp claims
that Pilot got a ‘positive’
response from the three
committee members.
Meanwhile, Jaipur po-
lice has categorically
stated that only the law
of land is taking place in
this case and there is no
political vendetta or any
instructions from ‘high-
er-ups’. Pilot has report-
edlyaskedhislegalteam
to provide all possible
help to Lokendra and
Sharat Kumar. However,
at this critical juncture,
Pilot is going to Jodhpur
this morning to pay his
condolences to late Jas-
want Singh’s family.
According to police
sources, main charge
against Pilot’s media ad-
visorLokendraisthaton
7th August 2020, during
the course of MLAs
‘badabandi’atJaisalmer,
Lokendra made viral a
list of almost two dozen
phone numbers includ-
ing the mobile numbers
of afewCongressMLAs,
which were factually in-
correct and defamatory.
Thevirallistalsoinclud-
ed the names of almost
half a dozen such Con-
gress legislators, who
after shifting their loy-
alty with Pilot camp,
have subsequently
joined Gehlot camp and
were camping at Jais-
almer’s five-star hotel.
This has sent a very ‘dis-
turbing’messageamong
these MLAs because
they thought that their
own ‘mentor’ and leader
Gehlot was himself spy-
ing on them.
A hurt and disgusted
CM had contradicted all
the rumors at that mo-
ment but a complaint
was registered in Jaipur
by the local police saying
that the entire incident
has damaged the reputa-
tion and credibility of
the Jaipur police. After
having a prima facie ver-
ification of the com-
plaint,nowJaipurpolice
has registered a formal
FIR against the two jour-
nalists.
Aaj Tak’s Rajasthan
EditorSharatKumarhas
been charged for airing
this phone taping news
on the channel. In re-
sponse to this charge,
Sharat has questioned
the wisdom and proprie-
tary of Jaipur police on
why to only book him
under the law, whereas
the said news was also
publishedandcirculated
on a number of other
leading newspapers and
news channels. Sharat
says that it is an act of
discrimination under
the law.
Subsequently, in the
evening, on his Youtube
channel, Sharat carried
a frontal attack on the
Gehlot government and
openly supported Pilot
on various grounds.
According to Gehlot
camp sources, the CM
himself was ‘hurt and
pained’ with this ‘act’ of
a friendly journalist to
whom he always shared
completetrustandconfi-
dence but still, his gov-
ernment did not initiate
any legal action at that
moment. It was only at
initiative of Jaipur po-
lice that the preliminary
inquiry was conducted
which was followed by a
formal FIR. Prior to this
‘Badabandi’ phone tap-
ping case, Sharat was
always considered very
close to Gehlot but how
Sharatlosthis‘equation’
with the chief minister,
still remains a mystery.
In Rajasthan media
circles, Sharat perhaps
happens to be the only
senior journalist, who
used to enjoy an equal
andsimilarrapportwith
all the three big wigs of
Rajasthan ie Gehlot,
Vasundhara and Pilot.
But in the changing
world of ‘relationships’,
Gehlot and Sharat have
completely fallen apart
to the extent that Sharat
is facing a serious crimi-
nal case under Gehlot
government itself.
—FILE PHOTO
P Ramesh
CHIEF MINISTER REVIEWS LAW AND ORDER
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A lesson in
TIMETIME
ule Gulzar, chhayi
bahaar’ was how my
father would often
address my mother
and on being asked
once what does it
mean, he told me
that it was Sunil Dutt’s favour-
ite dialogue from Waqt! I sim-
ply had to see it!
Waqt is a classic, everything
about it is well drawn from the
storyline, dialogues, charac-
terisation, music to the songs,
it’s about life, love, fate, hope
and family.
It’s one of my all-time fa-
vourites and it’s really diffi-
cult to pick out the best parts.
The love story of a chirpy full
of life Sunil Dutt and a breath-
takingly beautiful Sadhana
with simply lovely songs set
on the undercurrent of trag-
edy that has befallen the fam-
ily of Balraj Sahni keeps one
rooted to the screen.
The immensely hummable
songs ‘Hum jab simat kar aap-
ki, Kaaun aaya ke, Chehre pe
Khushi chhaa jaati’ hai cou-
pled with the hugely popular
till date ‘O’meri zohra jabeen’
by Manna Dey where Balraj
Sahni woos the blushing
Achala Sachdev on the same
date birthday of his three
sons.
My sympathies were with
Raaj Kumar who loves and
loses Sadhana to Sunil Dutt,
the MOMENT where he goes
to kill his rival to find a child-
hood photo identifying him
as his younger brother stills
the breath and the famous
dialogue in his drawling
voice- “yeh bachhon ke
khelne ki cheez nahin,
haath kat jaaye to khoon
nikal aata hai,” which I
went around mouth-
ing for a full week
flaunting a fruit knife at my
siblings!
Shashi Kapoor played the
devoted son at crossroads, his
love for Sharmila Tagore on a
back burner as he tried to bal-
ance the reality of his life.
Sharmila’s harsh truth to
Sunil Dutt which brings the
transformation from playboy
to responsible lawyer and a
peek into the issues of birth,
family background and re-
spect for labour.
The car race between Raaj
Kumar and Sunil Dutt is quite
interesting though nothing on
the car races of today. The
heroines in their fashionable
cut clothes woo the audience
as does the grandeur of the
locales.
Rehman is his usual suave
self as Chinoy Seth who un-
ravels in the famous court-
room scene where finally the
family comes together in a fi-
nal heartrending scene which
did not leave a single dry eye.
Balrah Sahni gives a perfor-
mance of a lifetime and he
was a consummate actor par
excellence, his hapless search
for his family missing them by
seconds- Raaj in the orphan-
age where he murders Jeevan
in pain and anger and his wife
with young Shashi Kapoor
when they move to Mumbai-
keeps one engaged.
Waqt reminds me of Sholay
in the fine moments and deep
characterization of all it’s ac-
tors strewn across three hours
of relentless drama, music,
performances and fine direc-
tion which keep the mind,
heart and soul engaged. A les-
son of life!
JAIPUR, THURSDAY
OCTOBER 8, 2020
This Throwback Thursday we bring you
one of the first multi starrer blockbusters
1965 - Waqt - the first colour film by
BR Chopra productions, directed by
Yash Chopra, it spawned a generation
of family ‘separated and reunited’
multi-starrers!
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YOUR
DAYHoroscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You have a contagious
smile and use it in your
best ability. Obnoxious
behaviour should be
avoided at all cost in business
matters. Times are tough but where
there is a will there is a way. Open up
to your close ones if you are facing
any challenges in your life.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
An exciting opportunity will
knock at your door and will
provide you a chance to
make money. Bickering
around is a waste of time rather
invest yourself building strong
relationships. Your seniors will
acknowledge your efforts in work
and will truly admire your dedication.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
You manage to find
solutions to all your
problems. You are on the
threshold of achieving
something that you wanted for a long
time. Valiant and pivot is how you
can be defined. One person’s loss is
another person’s benefit and right
now you are the one who will gain.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Considering the alarming
health crisis, you must
watch what you eat as your
body is your only most
precious temple now. Immaculately
dressed is how people define you.
People may misunderstand your
silence but in the end people see you
for who you truly are.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
You will find a mentor who
will give a shape to your
ideas. Whining over what
has been lost is not a
sensible thing to do, move ahead
with time and with faith in yourself
give your best in something new. You
will get attracted to someone with
absolute opposite views.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
Work from home is a new
trend but that doesn’t give
you the liberty to take it any
easy. Devouring one book
after the another is your current hobby
and you have completely dedicated
yourself to it. Dedication is must in
these trial times as any source of
income is a blessing.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
Wealth tickles in and your
dry spell on financial front
ends. You are always
looking forward to try
something new on business front
and you never settle for anything but
the best. Demeanour plays an
important role when it comes to
being a part of an elite group.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Many small failures in life
acts as a stepping stone
towards success so never
let yourself feel discour-
aged with temporary setbacks.
Judicious use of time is the need of
this hour. You may have to struggle a
little but your future is very bright.
You may fall in love at the first sight.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Don’t be confused when it
comes to making decision
regarding your future, trust
your instincts and forge
ahead. Procuring goods on time will
remain your priority for today as far
as your business is concerned.
Spirituality is the answer to your
problems, indulge yourself in it.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
You need to keep a check
on your emotions as you
may feel overwhelmed.
Adhere to the terms of
your job and there is nothing to
worry. Be efficient and innovative in
your work. A good reputation in
market will help you in long run. Care
about those who matters in your life.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
A sentence of motivation
can really cheer someone
up and change their life so
deal with a youngster in
family. Sycophants are always
around but it depends on you if you
wish to be influenced For students
this is a very precious time to change
their weakness into strength.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Time is a valuable asset so
do not waste it. You are
very conscious of your
karma and you believe in
action and reactions. Endowment
received to give wings to your dream
must be appreciated and used in the
right direction. Its still not too late to
regain your ground on academic.
Sponsored by Rodic Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
oft-spoken and pe-
tite, Dr Shivani
Swami is the con-
sultant pulmonolo-
gist at the Naraya-
na Multispeciality
Hospital in Jaipur.
She has a gruelling day
which begins at 9.00 am
and goes on right till the
evening. Earlier, Narayana
was not a COVID Center,
but now it is; which has
only increased her work-
pressure. She has worked
in some of the most pres-
tigious hospitals in the
country like Medanta: The
MediCity in Gurgaon and
the Fortis Hospital in New
Delhi. In an exclusive in-
terview with City First, she
mentioned, “I have not met
my parents for 7 months,
even though they live in
Jaipur”.
Q1. What have been the
last 7 months like for
you as a Pulmonolo-
gist?
Ans. Well, you can imag-
ine that my parents
live in the same city
and I haven’t met
them for almost 7
months. Since I am
coming in contact
with so many COVID
patients, I wanted to
protect them from
the virus.
Q2. What is your typical
day like in these
times of pandemic?
Ans. My day begins at 9
am and I am seeing
patients right till
4.30 pm. And I am in
a PPE kit. Which
means no food to eat,
no water to drink
and no visit to the
toilet. When I reach
home around 5 pm –
that is the time I eat.
From 5.15 pm to 6.30
pm, I sit in my per-
sonal clinic and see
patients. The clinic is
followed by video
consultancy for
many patients. So
you can see that it is
a packed day.
Q3. Narayana wasn’t a
COVID Center till re-
cently, which meant a
lesser number of pa-
tients in comparison
to the COVID Centers?
Ans. Not really. There
were elective patients
(non-COVID) for asth-
ma and other respira-
tory diseases. Fur-
thermore, at the OPD
there were a lot of
COVID patients com-
ing. They were, of
course, prescribed
tests and medicines.
If they were in-home
quarantine, I was
guiding them on a
daily basis. Recently,
the hospital has start-
ed a dedicated COVID
ward which has to
some extent increased
the work pressure.
Q4. There is a lot of de-
bate about what med-
icines one should take
as soon as one tests
positive? Apart from
Vitamin C, Zinc and
Vitamin D combo.
Ans. I would begin with
Ivermectin on day
one itself. I would
also recommend Dox-
ycycline. Then de-
pending on the condi-
tion of the patient, I
would recommend
Remdesivir which in-
volves admission to a
hospital. FabiFlu
could also be a medi-
cine of choice de-
pending on the pa-
tient.
Q5. How do you see things
unfolding in the next
few months?
Ans. We will have to learn
to live with COV-
ID-19, I guess.
Q6. What would you ad-
vise the patients who
have just recovered
from COVID-19?
Ans. They have to first of
all continue with
their medicines and
vitamin supplements.
They must continue
with their respirato-
ry exercises and then
they have to strictly
follow the protocols
like physical distanc-
ing, hand hygiene
and most important
of them all, wearing
a mask. They must
also remember that
re-infections are hap-
pening and the sec-
ond time around
COVID is much more
severe. And I strong-
ly recommend a flu
shot for everyone.
Q7. Wherever you have
worked you have been
involved with the
sleep treatment. Is
this a passion of
yours?
Ans. Yes, it is. This is one
area I have super
specialised in. In
fact, a year ago I had
already established a
sleep clinic in Naray-
ana Hospital but
with the coming of
the COVID, it has
taken a backseat for
the time being.
NEHAL NAYAR
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‘I HAVE NOT MET MY PARENTS‘I HAVE NOT MET MY PARENTS
FOR 7 MONTHSFOR 7 MONTHS’’S
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  • 1. New Delhi: Disposing a clutch of petitions in connection with the Shaheen Bagh sit-in protest, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that public places cannot be occupied in- definitely and protests must be allowed only in designated areas. The apex court ob- served it is the duty of the administration to remove such road block- ades. Unfortunately no action by administra- tion and hence court’s intervention in the mat- ter, it said. A bench comprising Justices SK Kaul, Krish- na Murari and Hrishi- kesh Roy said: “Public places cannot be occu- pied indefinitely. Dis- sent and democracy go hand in hand but pro- testsmustbecarriedout in designated area… Suchkindof occupation of public place for pro- tests is not acceptable.” On September 21, the bench reserved its ver- dict after observing that the right to protest has to be balanced with the right of the people to use a public road. So- licitor General Tushar Mehta said that though Right to Turn on P6 Public spaces can’t be occupied indefinitely SC ON SHAHEEN BAGH Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpen- tier and Jennifer Doud- na for “development of a method for genome editing”. “Emmanuelle and Jennifer have discov- ered one of gene tech- nology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 ge- netic scissors,” the Academy said. “Using these, re- searchers can change the DNA of animals, plants, and microorgan- isms with Turn on P6 Chemistry Queens! US-French duo win Nobel Prize for gene editing tool Guinness World Record title holder Rajlakshmi Manda rings a bell weighing 613 kg, meant for Ram Temple, after it arrived from Rameswaram by road, in Ayodhya on Wednesday. RING FOR RAM IN AYODHYA —PHOTO BY PTI TWO DECADES IN OFFICE, A WINNER ALL THE WAY!  In yet another political milestone for Narendra Modi, the prime minister on Wednesday as he entered his 20th year in a public office without a break  PM Modi was appointed as chief minister of Gujarat by the BJP when the saffron party was battling infighting among its own leaders. It would not be wrong to say that PM Modi used his 3 terms as Gujarat CM to strengthen the party and helped the BJP end the stronghold of Congress party at the Centre  Modi took charge as Gujarat chief minister on October 7, 2001 soon after the devastating earthquake which had rocked Bhuj  In 2007, Modi took oath as Gujarat CM for the second time and he became the CM in 2012 for the third time in a row. In 2014, Modi took oath as Prime Minister after BJP won Lok Sabha poll with majority. In 2019, PM Modi led BJP to a thumping victory to take oath as prime minister for the second time Amit Shah @AmitShah Inspired by the thoughts, vision and charismatic personality of Prime Minister Modi, every Indian today is working towards re-establishing India as a ‘Vishwa Guru’. It is a matter of great pride for me to work for the welfare of the nation under his extraordinary leadership and guidance EX-CBI CHIEF ENDS LIFE Former Governor of Ma- nipur and Nagaland, and ex-CBI Director Ashwani Kumar was found dead at his residence in Shim- la on Wednesday, Mohit Chawla, SP Shimla told news agency ANI. Kumar was the Director Gen- eral of Police, Himachal Pradesh, before being appointed the director of CBI from August 2008 to November 2010. GUPTESHWAR LEFT IN LURCH Seat sharing between JDU and BJP has created a hurdle for top cop- turned-politician ‘Robin Hood’ Gupteshwar Pan- dey’s electoral plunge post taking VRS. Buxar is Pandey’s hometown and it has gone to BJP in the deal. Pandey, who came to limelight with Sushant case, is now sprinting towards BJP hoping to grap a ticket. Mathura: A journalist and three others on way to Hathras and arrested by the Uttar Pradesh po- lice earlier this week have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and sedition, according to an FIR registered in Mathura on Wednesday. The four, who had been arrested in Mathu- ra on Monday, had been placed under preventive detention but an FIR was registered against them in the Mant police station of Mathura on Wednesday and subse- quently they were pre- sented before a court. These four include Atiq-ur- Rehman from Muzaffar Nagar, Siddiq from Malappuram (Ker- ala),MasoodfromBahra- ich and Alam from Ram- pur. Siddiq is a journal- ist. They were arrested on Monday night after a laptop and some objec- tionable literature relat- ing to ‘Justice for Hath- rasVictim’wasallegedly recoveredfromtheirpos- session while they were en route to Hathras. Meanwhile, CM Yogi Adityanath said that the Oppsitionisdoingpolitics on ‘dead bodies of poor’. Will deal with them with ‘heavy hand’. Turn on P6 Journalist,3 others on way to Hathras slapped with UAPA,sedition The FIR blames them for attempting to incite riots and fuelling caste violence for which they were collecting donations RHEA BREATHES FRESH AFTER MONTH IN JAIL Mumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty left Mum- bai’s Byculla prison this evening after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 28 days after her arrest on drugs-related charges in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Her broth- er Showik has been de- nied bail. The actor, hounded by the media in the past, left in a car with its windows covered with newspapers. It drove through a huge crowd of reporters, cameramen, policemen and others gathered outside the jail. The Mumbai Police had warned the media against “chasing celeb- rities and others” and “endangering lives” shortly after the actor’s bail. Turn on P6 DON’T AGREE CELEBS SHOULD BE TREATED HARSHLY: JUDGE The judge disagreed that celebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation and they do not get encouraged to commit such offences. “I do not agree. Everybody is equal before law. No celebrity or role model enjoys any special privilege before the Court of law. Similarly, such person also does not incur any special liability when he faces law in the Courts. Each case will have to be decided on its own merits. SUSHANT’S FAMILY WRITES TO CBI, SLAMS AIIMS PANEL Days after a team of doctors from Delhi’s AIIMS said that actor Sushant Singh Rajput was not murdered and that it is a case of suicide, his family has written to the CBI chief, seeking the formation of a fresh medical board to review the autopsy and viscera reports by a Mumbai hospital. The family, through its lawyers, has also accused AIIMS panel of being “unprofessional” and has threatened to approach court. BAIL GRANTED: “She (Rhea Chakraborty) is not part of the chain of drug dealers. She has not forwarded the drugs allegedly procured by her to somebody else to earn monetary or other benefits,” says Bombay HC  Report every day for 10 days to Mumbai police  FURNISH BAIL BOND `1 LAKH  Deposit passport, cannot leave country or Mumbai without permission  CANNOT MEET WITH ANY OTHER WITNESSES CONDITIONS FOR THE BAIL Will investigation reach Pilot’s doorstep? Aditi Nagar Jaipur: Inanewtwistin Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pi- lotrelationship,aserious development has taken place during the last 24 hours,whenattheinsist- ence of Jaipur Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava, Jaipur’s Vid- hayakpuri police regis- tered a criminal FIR against Pilot’s media ad- visor Lokendra Singh andtheRajasthanEditor of a leading national news channel ‘Aaj Tak’ SharatKumarinarecent phone tapping case. The case has been reg- istered under sections 505 (1) (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report), 505 (2) (state- ments creating or pro- motingenmity,hatredor ill-will between classes), 120 B (criminal conspir- acy) of the Indian Penal Code and section 76 of the IT Act. Both the accused jour- nalists have been asked to appear before the po- lice for interrogation this morning. Now, the Pilot camp has gone ex- tremely upset with the possibility of naming Pilot himself by his own media advisor Lokend- ra, because the list of all these mobile numbers was believed to be hand- ed over by Pilot himself to his media advisor for circulation in media. The main point of con- cern is that if during the course of interrogation, media advisor Lokendra names Pilot, then what will happen? According to legal ex- perts, this might lead the entire investigation to Pilot’s door-step. There- fore after guessing this possibility, a concerned or worried Pilot came into action in support of his media advisor and Aaj Tak Rajasthan Edi- tor and reportedly sent a clear ‘message’ to Rahul Gandhi and the mem- bers of three-member committee ie Ahmed Pa- tel, Ajay Maken and KC Venugopal saying that it is a clear violation of a two-month-old‘ceasefire’ which was done under the instructions and di- rect supervision of Pri- yanka Gandhi. Turn on P8 FIR AGAINST PILOT MEDIA ADVISOR AND ONE JOURNALIST Sachin PilotAshok Gehlot 22°C - 37°C www.firstindia.co.in | www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia | instagram.com/thefirstindia JAIPUR l THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 123 OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD CCEA APPROVES ‘NATURAL GAS MARKETING REFORMS’ FOR STANDARD SALE PROCEDURE OF NATURAL GASP5 P6 PM SHOULD BREAK HIS SILENCE AND COME OUT TO FACE MANY QUESTIONS BEING ASKED IN THE COUNTRY: RAHUL
  • 2. RAJASTHANJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 02www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Abhishek Srivastava Jaipur: The state gov- ernment has started collecting details about the status of land that was allotted in various districts by the former Vasundhara Raje gov- ernment for construc- tion of BJP offices. The objective of the ex- ercise is yet not clear but it is likely to become a political issue in the coming days. The au- thorities are collecting details like present sta- tus of land allotment site, whether the con- struction has started, and the maps were ap- proved by local bodies or not. According to sources, the authorities concerned are also ex- amining if amount has been deposited on land. “Info on land allotted for BJP offices sought” STATUS OF BJP LAND ‘Congneedstochange‘PoorDaddy’image’Satish Poonia, Gulabchand Kataria, Rajendra Rathore, Jaskaur Meena, Madan Dilawar submit memorandum to Governor Aishwary Pradhan Jaipur: The state BJP upped the ante against the state Congress gov- ernment on Wednesday by submitting a memo- randum to the Gover- nor Kalraj Mishra against rising crime in the state. State BJP chief Sat- ish Poonia led a five- member delegation in- cluding leader of oppo- sition Gulab Chand Kataria, deputy LOP Rajendra Rathore, Dausa MP Jaskaur Meena and state BJP General Secretary Madan Dilawar. Poonia said that the state government was failing at curbing both the rising corona num- bers as well as the spike in the crime figures. Quoting figures from the National crime re- cord bureau (NCRB), Poonia said that Ra- jasthan stood number one in crime against women in the country. He attributed this to the absence of a full-time home minister in the state. “The state govern- ment needs to change its ‘poor daddy’ image by immediately curbing the crime rate in the state which was more dangerous than the ris- ing corona cases,” said Poonia. He appealed to the Governor to review the law and order situa- tion in the state. He said that even the journal- ists were being threat- ened and cases were be- ing registered against them to silence them. Kataria, who was home minister in the previous BJP govern- ment, called the situa- tion in the state very se- rious giving example of the Thanagazi incident whereafatherof araped daughtercommittedsui- cide by hanging himself depressed by injustice done to his family. He said that Rajasthan has registered spike off 42- 43%inrapecasesduring last one year. While praising his own tenure as home minister of the state, Kataria sarcasti- cally asked the CM Ashok Gehlot to remove his eye glasses and see the situation clearly. Rathore said that the DGP of Rajasthan was attributing the rise in crime to the registra- tion of false cases by the people. He said the police have been beaten at eight occasions and the CM should resign immediately. Dausa MP Jaskaur Meena raised the issue of rape with a deaf and dumb girl in Dausa district while Madan Dilawar called the Baran rape incident as heart-wrenching. Jodh cops probing rape, blackmail Teenager raped, left unconscious on a road in Barmer Rathore attacks Cong over crime Rajeev Gaur Jodhpur: The Maha- mandir police station has received a report alleging rape and blackmail against one Amit Tanwar in reply to latter’s FIR against the lady registered earlier. The blackmail vic- tim along with the re- port also submitted audio recordings of Amit Tanwar threat- ening her father of dire consequences if he does not pay rupees 50 lakh in 5 install- ments spread over in about 2 months. The ex-boyfriend had demanded the price for separation with the girl peace- fully else he would make all the commu- nication between them public. Amit Tanwar ran a investi- gation, officer Ash- ish Kumar said that the police have begun the investigations and victim has been sent for medical ex- amination. He said that soon the victim’s statement will also be recorded under section 164.The police said that the language of report given by Amit Tanwar matched with the language used while threatening vic- tim’s father. Durgsingh Rajpurohit Barmer: Even as up- roar over UP’s Hathras gang rape is still raging, a 14-year-old girl was al- legedly raped by a man while his accomplice shot the video of the in- cident on his mobile phone in Shiv region of Barmer district of west- ern Rajasthan. The vic- tim is admitted at a gov- ernment hospital. According to the vic- tim’s statement, she kept crying and plead- ing the accused to leave her and not to film the incident in the mobile phone but they did not heed her. The victim was alone in the house as her par- ents had gone to vote in panchayat elections on Tuesday. The accused forcibly took the victim with them to a secluded place where one of the accused raped her while his accomplice shot the incident on the mobile phone. District collector Vishram Meena and Su- perintendent of Police Anand Sharma met the victim and her family membersatthehospital. The police have launched a manhunt for theaccused.Meanwhile, Kailash Chaudhary tweeted, “The tone of apathy of the state gov- ernment is now echoing even in a quiet area like Barmer. Possible step will be taken for justice. First India Bureau Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson and Member of Parliament from Jaipur Rural Ra- jyavardhan Singh Rathore on Wednesday took to social media to lash out at the Congress government for the de- teriorating law and or- der and increasing crime against women in Rajasthan. He said that the pub- lic was suffering due to poor law and order in the state due to which Rajasthan has reached the top in cases of crimes against women. There have been so many cases of rape in Rajasthan, but Con- gress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gan- dhi, CM Gehlot or other Congress leader did not condole the victims’ by meeting. CM is giving statements of not com- paring Baran with Hathras and thus he is giving clean chit. First India Bureau Jhalawar: The pro- tem speaker of MP assembly Ramesh- war Sharma on Wednesday advo- cated for public ex- action of rapists in the country. He said that rapists should be publicly hanged till death and its live telecast should also be done. It is for the judiciary to decide for the penalty of the culprit. Sharma was in Kota to express grief over the de- mise of Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla’s father, Shrikishan Birla. Sharma said that EC is alert and serious for ensur- ing corona guide- lines during assem- bly bypolls in MP. First India Bureau Sirohi: SP Pooja Awa- na on Wednesday reached Abu Road to inquire about an al- leged rape case of a mi- nor girl. She visited Sadar PS where SHO Anand Kumar briefed about case. Awana said, victim’s father has stated in re- port, his minor daugh- ter was abducted and raped on pretext of marriage. BJP district presi- dent Narayan Purohit, MLA Jagsiram Koli also reached village and met the family of vic- tim. Family told, girl was missing for month. ‘COURT TO DECIDE RAPE PENALTY’ MINOR GIRL ABDUCTED AND RAPED KirodiMeenaextendssupportto Bainsla on quote agitation Laxmikant Sharma Dausa: The politics scenario over reserva- tion issue has started heating up in the state and gained momentum on Wednesday when RS MP Dr Kirodi Lal Meena extended his support to the demand in Dausa. He announced to even join the Gurjar agitation on the rail- way tracks if invited by Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, Col. (retd) Kirodi Singh Bainsla. Bainsla had on Sunday warned the state government of agitation if the demand of reservation for most backward class (MBC) was not met with this time. Meena supported the demand of MBC reservation and ap- pealed to the state gov- ernment to fulfill it. It will be interesting for all political pundits to see the two parallel po- litical railway tracks come together in the name of MBC reserva- tion while the state is being ruled by a sensi- tive and politically as- tute CM Gehlot. Meena said, women leaders were taking an unethi- cal route to political success. (From L-R) Rajendra Rathore, Gulabchand Kataria, Satish Poonia, Jaskaur Meena and Madan Dilawar present memorandum to Governor on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA Rajsamand MP Diya submits memo to Guv Jaipur: BJP leader and MP Rajsamand Diya Ku- mari also submitted on Wednesday a memoran- dum to the Governor regarding increasing incidents of rape and crime in the state. She submitted the letter be- fore the BJP delegation met the Rajasthan Gov- ernor Kalraj Mishra. When asked about two memorandum on a same topic in a same day, state BJP president Satish Poonia said only five people were al- lowedbytheRajBhavan as such Kumari submit- ted a memorandum first being a woman. Kumari said that she had sought appoint- ment with the Governor long ago and she met him today so she also submitted the letter. Af- ter submitting the mem- orandum, Kumari told the media persons that the incidents of rape are increasing continu- ously in the state, due to which Rajasthan is ashamed. “I have drawn Governor’s attention to increasing crime in the state. I have also sought Governor’s interven- tion so that crime could be checked,” MP Diya Kumari said. Diya Kumari submitted a memorandum to Governor on the increasing incidents of rape and crime in Rajasthan on Wed. STATE CRIME DATA LAND ALLOTMENTS Vasundhara Raje @VasundharaBJP Today again in Barmer, an innocent 15 year old was raped. Em- barrassed to see such situation in the state. Sometimes gang rape, sometimes more than little girls. Is this the tragedy of Rajasthan. Do something the government .. ! Rameshwar Sharma Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 3 youth threaten minor, father complains cops Vinod Tiwari Dholpur: Father of a 13 year old minor girl has registered a com- plaint in the Bari Sa- dar police station of the district against three youths of the neighbourhood for pressurizing his minor daughter to be promiscuous, threatening making her obscene photo- graphs viral on social media. Reporting against Rajveer, Neeraj and Dilip, the minor’s fa- ther in his complaint stated that when he saw his Facebook ac- count on 30 Septem- ber 2020, he came across obscene photo- graphs of his daugh- ter. The report alleged taking away of the minor girl on a false pretext and clicking obscene photographs of her to later pressurize her for sexual fa- vours. The report stated that the youth would have raped his daugh- ter that very day but she was saved because her mother reached the neighbouring house while search- ing for the daughter. The Bari police have registered a case un- der various sections and are investigating the case further. Dr Kirodi Lal Meena
  • 3. RAJASTHANJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 03www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Corona Blast: State reports 2,151 new cases in 24 hours Naveen Joshi Jaipur: The mortal re- mains of Congress MLA Kailash Chandra Trivedi, who died at a hospital in Gurgaon on Monday night, were consigned to flames at his ancestral village in Bhilwara. Trivedi, 65, who was Sahara (Bhilwara) MLA, passed away late on Monday night at a Gurgaon Hospital. The Rajasthan government had moved him to the hospital five days ago by an air ambulance. His relatives, sup- porters, villagers paid floral tributes to Trive- di in Raipur village be- fore the cremation. Trivedi’s elder son, Sandeep Trivedi lit the funeral pyre amid chanting of Vedic man- tras. The Cong leader’s fu- neral procession start- ed from his residence in Raipur. The market in Raipur was closed on Wednes- day to mourn the Con- gress Veteran’s demise. Trivedi recovered from Coronavirus in- fection, but was suffer- ing from lung fibrosis and thus, was shifted to Gurgaon from Jaipur on October 2. Various Congress leaders including Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma, Agri- culture Minister Lal- chand Kataria, Trans- port Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Sports Minister Ashok Chandna, Dairy Chair- man Ramlal Jat, BJP leaders and others paid tributes to Trivedi, who was a three-time MLA from Sahara. Cong MLA Trivedi laid to rest, tributes pour in LAST JOURNEY First India Bureau Jaipur: The number of total corona infected since the break out of the pandemic, crossed the psychological mark of 1.5 lakh on Wednes- day. The state reported 2,151 new corona cases in the past 24 hours along with 16 deaths. One death each was re- ported from Ajmer, Banswara, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Chittorgarh, Ganganagar, Hanuman- garh, Jalore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Pali, Si- kar, Tonk and Udaipur taking the death toll to 1590 so far. Maximum 473 new cases were reported from Jaipur, followed by 329 from Jodhpur, 261 from Bikaner, 185 from Alwar, 126 from Udaipur, 120 from Bhilwara, 90 from Ajmer, 64 from Sikar, 50 from Pali, 46 from Dun- garpur, 37 from Kota, 33 from Ganganagar, 32 from Rajsamand, 31 each from Bharatpur & Chittorgarh, 29 from Ja- lore, 28 from Sirohi, 21 from Nagaur, 18 each from Churu & Jhunj- hunu, 16 from Dausa, 15 each from Jhalawar & Sawai Madhopur, 12 from Karauli, 11 each from Barmer, Dholpur & Jaisalmer, 10 each from Banswara & Tonk, 7 from Bundi, 6 from Baran, 4 from Pratap- garh, and 1 from Hanu- mangarh. Meanwhile, district CMHO Dr Ajay Chod- hary informed that in a mask distribution event organised at the munic- ipal body office in Sikar 49 officers and employ- ees were tested, where- in, Municipal Commis- sioner Shrawan Kumar came out to be corona positive. The event was attend- ed by Minister Dr Sub- hash Garg, PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra along with many other district officers. AVINASH PANDE @avinashpandeinc Received the news of Senior @INCIndia Leader mr @Motila- lVoraji being corona positive. I pray to God for his speedy recov- ery and long life. HOME QUARANTINE First India Bureau Jaipur: Rajasthan’s dignitaries settled in India and abroad will be brought to light on social media through the ‘Hum Rajasthani’ programme. Rajasthan Founda- tion and Simply Jaipur on Wednesday signed a Memoran- dum of Understand- ing (MoU) in this re- gard. Dheeraj Srivastava, the chairman of Ra- jasthan Foundation, and Anshu Harsh, editor of Simply Jaipur, signed the aforementioned MoU. Srivastava said that the objective of ‘Hum Rajasthani’ pro- gramme is to intro- duce those Rajastha- ni people, who are settled in the country and abroad and have established their identity with their hard work, intelli- gence and skills so that the young genera- tion gets to know about them and can also get inspired by these exemplary per- sonalities. Adding further, Srivastava said that the foundation also played a crucial role in connecting doctors and other experts who are from Rajasthan and settled in various countries through a webinar during the Covid pandemic to contribute its bit to- wards our fight against the Coronavi- rus pandemic and also to help people. Tasleem Usmani Jaipur: Congress Chief Whip, Dr Mahesh Joshi on Wednesday, consoled the family of the vic- tims of the cotton fac- tory fire incident in Brahmpuri area and also handed over cheques of financial as- sistance by the govern- ment. A man and his minor son were killed and sev- eral others were injured when the factory caught fire recently. Joshi met the family members and expressed grief. The Chief Whip also urged people in the lo- cality to follow guide- lines related to the deadly COVID-19 infec- tion to stay safe from the infection and also to prevent its further- spread. While speaking to the people in the Brahm- puri locality, Dr Joshi said that wearing mask is an important defence against the virus spread and everyone should wear a mask and main- tain social distancing to prevent the virus spread. Talking about the lo- cal bodies’ election, the Congress leader exuded confidence that the par- ty candidates will per- form good in the up- coming elections. On the issue of haz- ards of firecrackers for COVID-19 patients, he said that he has spoken to Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot in this re- gard and urged him to allow the sale of green (environment- friendly) firecrackers during the upcoming festive sea- son. First India Bureau Jaipur: The Chief Jus- tice of Supreme court has formed a special three-judge bench to conduct hearing in SLP filed by Rajasthan government about elec- tions in six newly cre- ated Municipal Corpo- rations. Justice AM Khan- wilkar, justice Dinesh Maheshwari and jus- tice Sanjeev Khanna will hear the petition today. State govern- ment had approached the apex court and filed a petition after the HC dismissed the state government’s applica- tion to extend the time limit for holding elec- tions of Municipal Corporations in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota. First India Bureau Jaipur: To obstruct a govt servant from per- forming his duty is a crime, but to obstruct a corona warrior from performing his duties during corona times, is a more serious crime. This fact proved to be true, when an IAS, Dr Artika Shukla did not find her name in the confirmation list released by the central DoPT on Wednesday. IAS Artika Shukla is facing a judicial case in which she has been charged of misbehav- ing and manhandling a corona warrior, Dr Jyotsna Ranga. The ratified list of the Ra- jasthan cadre IAS, which has reached the CS and DoP includes the name of Rohitash- va Singh Tomar, Amit Yadav, Athar Aamir ul Shafi Khan, Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, Manju Pratap Singh, Ravin- dra Goswami and Tina Dabi. Total 109 IAS of- ficers of 2016 batch have been confirmed in the list. New Delhi: The Su- preme Court on Wednesday, extended relief to one of the ac- cused in Laxmi Vilas Palace Hotel disinvest- ment case, Pradeep Baijal, by staying the order of High Court, which had directed him to appear before the CBI court to fur- nish bonds. One of the accused in the case, Baijal was sick and therefore, the Apex Court gave him relief on humanitari- an grounds. Other accused Jy- otsna Suri, Ashish Guha and Kanti lal will also appear before the court to furnish bonds as directed by the High Court. The High Court had stayed the arrest war- rant against the ac- cused in a case involv- ing the sale of an Udaipur hotel at an al- leged loss of Rs 244 crore to the exchequer and directed them to furnish the bonds in the CBI court. ‘Hum Rajasthani’ to highlight state achievers Bhanwar Singh Bhati is in ‘home quarantine’ after three in his family tested positive DrJoshivisitskinof Bhrampurifire victims, offersfinancialaidfromgovt Spl 3 judge bench to hear SLP on polls Rajasthan IAS deprived of promotion for misconduct SC stays HC order, granting relief to accused Mahesh Joshi hands over a cheque on behalf of govt to kin of fire victims in Bhrampuri. Nizam Kantaliya Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has directed the state government to exe- cute the order passed by the High Court in November 2018, pertaining to grade pay of judicial employees. A division bench of justice Prakash Gupta and justice Ma- hendra Goyal is- sued the direc- tions of the state government to comply with the court order by No- vember 3. In case the government fails to implement the order, the finance secretary will have to appear in the court. Judicial employee Narendra Mathur and oth- ers had filed a contempt petition in thecourtafterthegovernmentdidnot complywiththecourtorderpassedon Nov 3, 2018. First India Bureau Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has directed to include candidates in Lab Technician recruitment-2020, whose results of revaluation have been released af- ter much delay. The candidates, whose result of revaluation of the diploma course was declared after the last date of fil- ing application, will be included in the recruitment process, said the court. Justice Ashok Gaur passed the or- der on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Kalpna and few others. Advocate Tanveer Ahmad argued in the Rajasthan High Court on behalf of the petitioners. Follow court order: Raj HC to Govt LabTechhiring: Includethosewho sought recheck IN THE COURTYARD First India Bureau Jaipur: Education Min- ister Govind Singh Do- tasra on Wednesday, said that the decision on re-opening of schools will be taken after dis- cussion with Chief Min- ister Ashok Gehlot. He said that the Cen- tre has allowed open- ing of schools from October 15, in unlock-5 guidelines and has left the decision to the state government. He said that the schools in the state are closed till October 31 and a decision will be taken after a review of the situation. The minister said that the session and study of four months have been disturbed and now the education department has start- ed working out on re- ducing the syllabus by 30 to 40 percent. Dotasra, who was holding a press confer- ence, said that discus- sion on recruitment of computer teachers is being held and a final decision will be taken soon. On pendency of dry ration distribution against midday meal to school students at their home, the minis- ter said that the pen- dency will be cleared in coming days. Dry ration of May and June months was distributed, but it is lying pending after June. He also informed that the teachers’ fe- licitation ceremony, which has been can- celled twice due to co- rona pandemic, will be held virtually on Octo- ber 15. Govind Singh Dotasra addresses a press conference at Shiksha Sankul on Wednesday. ‘Will decide on re-opening of schools after discussing with CM’ —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA —FILE PHOTO Chairman of Rajasthan Foundation, Dheeraj Srivastava & Editor of Simply Jaipur, Anshu Harsh after signing an MoU regarding the ‘Hum Rajasthani’ programme. Dr Raghu Sharma, Lalchand Kataria & Pratap Singh Khachariyawas visit Kailash Trivedi’s Raipur residence to condole his demise.
  • 4. PERSPECTIVEJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 04www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia G Vol 2 G Issue No. 123 G RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764. Printed and published by Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of First Express Publishers. Printed at Bhaskar Printing Press, D.B. Corp Limited, Shivdaspura, Tonk Road, Jaipur. Published at 304, 3rd Floor, City Mall, Bhagwan Das Road, C-Scheme, Jaipur-302001, Rajasthan. Phone 0141-4920504. Editor-In-Chief: Jagdeesh Chandra. Editor: Anita Hada Sangwan responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act he medical dra- ma playing out daily since President Don- ald Trump con- tracted COVID-19 is alarm- ing – but not surprising. Any physician who’s ever rendered medical advice or hospital care to a promi- nent person probably em- pathizes with Trump’s medical team. It’s a real challenge to care for VIP patients, whether they’re hospitalized or not. Of course, following best infection-control practices and providing evidence- based care are what physi- cians should do with all patients, even difficult or entitled VIPs. Easier said than done. As an internist, I’ve per- sonally been threatened by a mob boss who didn’t want to be discharged from the hospital, overwhelmed by hordes of Roma families suspicious of medical care for a dying king and asked to withhold information from the public that would be detrimental to a promi- nent person. Those are in- timidating challenges to professionalism and ethics. What is VIP syndrome? VIP syndrome is the ten- dency of clinicians to treat influential or famous pa- tients differently because they feel pressured to ac- cede to the VIP’s wishes. Psychiatrists have iden- tified three types of “spe- cial” patients who can cre- ate difficulty by dazzling or intimidating the care team: celebrities, VIPs and po- tentates. Celebrities focus un- wanted media attention on medical care. VIPs gener- ate awe so that the care team may lose their objec- tivity. Potentates exude narcissism and can un- earth it in others, trigger- ing power struggles with the health care team. Each subcategory of VIP patient has the potential to insist on special privileges, desired treatments or changes in care plans that can sabotage the best- thought-out medical regi- men. Physicians may order too many tests because of anxiety about missing something – or too few tests or consultations in order to spare the VIP pain, embar- rassment or scrutiny. For example, inquiries about substance abuse, sexual ac- tivity or psychological symptoms may be omitted. Unrealistic demands can cause unwise clinical deci- sions that can then result in bad outcomes. For exam- ple, if a famous individual has unresolved pneumonia but the treating physician doesn’t ask about sexual preference and activity, HIV may never be consid- ered or treated. Ahigh-profilepatienthas the potential to monopolize a medical team’s attention thatmightotherwisebedis- tributed across all patients currently under care. And VIP syndrome isn’t a concern just inside the Beltway, in Los Angeles or in other places known for powerful, rich or famous inhabitants. A 2017 survey of hospital-based physi- cians from eight U.S. insti- tutions revealed that a ma- jority of them reported feeling pressured by pa- tients, family members and hospital representatives to provide unnecessary care to VIP patients. The re- searchers pointed out that caring for VIP patients comes with “challenges for physicians as well for the patients themselves.” Handwritten ‘Feel Bet- ter Mr. President’ sign: Well-wishers gather Oct. 5 outside the hospital where President Trump was re- ceiving treatment for COV- ID-19. Olivier Douliery/ AFP via Getty Images Sticking to standards is the best care: When physicians have written about VIP syndrome over the years, common advice themes emerge: Treat the VIP as you would any other patient with the same con- dition; avoid power strug- gles; insist on the most ev- idence-based therapies; and establish a short, firm chain of command that ex- cludes the entourage ac- companying the VIP. In a 2018 article, several L.A. surgeons urged care teams looking after VIP pa- tients to do their best to fol- low standard procedures, treating the high-profile patient like any other. They cautionedagainstthetemp- tation to “overdo care” with unnecessary tests and pro- cedures. HTTPS://THECONVERSATION.COM VIP patients can be a headache for their doctors T What the outstanding person does, others will try to do. The standards such people create will be followed by the whole world. —The Bhagavad Gita Spiritual SPEAK Top TWEET Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjp The reforms in natural gas marketing will further de-bottleneck the E&P sector, allow affiliate companies to participate in the bidding process and will greatly help in fulfilling the national objective of reducing dependence on crude imports. #CabinetDecisions Randeep Singh Surjewala @rssurjewala The BJP MP’s lewd and clumsy remark for daughters of Uttar Pradesh and the country shows the ‘gait, face, character’ of the Adityanath government. Here, the representatives of BJP and Modi government themselves have become ‘Dushasan’ rather than demanding justice for their daughter. #HathrasHorrorShocksIndia RHEA FREED, NCB LICKS ITSWOUNDS ll the strain on their vocal chords by some television anchors to pronounce Rhea Chakraborty as guilty and Kanga- na Ranaut’s all-out effort to paint her and Bollywood in the black has gone to waste. One thought that with Rhea walking out of Byculla jail after Bombay High Court granted her bail and AIIMS, Delhi, rejecting the theory that Sushant Singh Rajput was murdered, they would accept the verdict. That has not happened. Lawyer of SSR’s family has raised doubts over the credibility of AIIMS and demanded that a fresh forensic team should look into the Cooper Hospital’s report in the case. The AIIMS report was handed over to the CBI which has so far remained quiet on the issue. The family may dispute AIIMS report and the Cooper Hospital’s post-mortem report but the Bom- bay High Court’s order suggests that the Narcotics Control Bureau tried to frame Rhea with frivolous charges. In its bail order the high court said that Rhea “is not part of a chain of drug dealers and “has not forwarded the drug allegedly procured by her to somebody else to earn monetary or other benefits”. The NCB had accused Rhea of being “an active member of a drugs syndicate” and wanted her to be treated harshly in order to make an exam- ple out of her. Rejecting the argument, the judge said, “Everybody is equal before law.” Neither do celebrities get special privileges, nor special liabil- ity before a court of law, the court said. This is not the end of the witch-hunt as alleged by the Rhea camp, though. A IN-DEPTH PROTEST, BUT NOT AT PUBLIC PLACES ublic places cannot be occupied “indefi- nitely” for staging protests, the Supreme Court said with reference to Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh protests against the Citi- zenship Amendment Act (CAA). The sit- in staged earlier this year lasted for over three monthsandwasspearheadedmainlybywomenwho sat through harsh winter months and rain demand- ing repeal of the Act. The protests ended in March aftertheimpositionof lockdowninviewof Covid-19. The Supreme Court observed, “Public spaces and places can’t be occupied indefinitely, whether in Shaheen Bagh or elsewhere. The administration must keep such spaces free from obstructions and not wait to fire from the court’s shoulder.” Instead of hiding behind courts, the authorities should act on their own, the Supreme Court added while al- lowing protesters the right to dissent peacefully at “designated places”. The sit-in had deeply divided the society on com- munallineswithDelhiBJPleaderKapilMishrawho charged the protesters to be “traitors”, “Pakistanis” and“terrorists”.Thepolicelodgedcasesagainstsev- eral of the protesters but left out Mishra who was also alleged to have incited communal passions. The Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests for the first time saw Muslim women collectively raise their voice against the legislation, shattering the stereo- type image of being burqa-clad and oppressed. The apex court’s order has settled the issue of sit- in protests at “public places or spaces” but the gov- ernments are becoming increasingly intolerant of protests in any form and at any place. So much so, theyarewary of peopleoffering flowers toaGandhi statue, as happened in Lucknow on October 2. P tructural reforms were impera- tive in agriculture sector. The objectives of current reforms are commendable. The bills to allow the private market and to enthuse and institute contract farming look promising and progressive in their very intent. However implementation and design issues still remain central. There have been pro- tests due to the vested interest, ideological reasons and spon- sored misinformation. I am not going in that debate. I want to take this conversa- tion to an altogether different level. My limited observations relatetothecomprehensionand evaluation of the above reforms through the gender lens. The ef- fort is to construct a perspective from the women centric ap- proach and thus to highlight the gaps in expectations from wom- en empowerment angle. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address that called for women led development instead of women-friendly development echoes in my mind while writ- ing this article. Policies and re- forms thus should reflect wom- en-led approach. Agriculture, the world over is feminized. Women farmers and women workers in the ag- riculture, especially for the sub- sistence agriculture remain invisible. There is a large range of academic work which high- lights this issue of non enumer- ation or invisibility including my own writings. More than 425 million wom- en contribute to agriculture globally, yet they don’t have equality in terms of land own- ership rights in more than 92 countries. Feminization of ag- riculture is a worldwide trend especially in the low technolo- gy subsets where labour inten- sive production is women cen- tric for obvious reasons. They contribute in subsist- ence farming too in a large way yet remain invisible as contri- butions. Around 80% of the entire farm work is carried out by women in India. They are 45% of the labour force but own only 2% of the land legally. 34% women are cultivators and 48% agricultural laborers. This ex- cludes subsistent work. Despite such dominant numbers they are already disadvantaged in wage, land rights, representa- tion in local farmers organisa- tion and other agency assets which translate in negative ex- ternalities. Structural con- straints for women empower- ment are real and need to be addressed. How the new reforms are ad- dressing these pre-existing dis- tortion in an emerging agri market which they perceive and advocate remains unclear. Farmers are perceived as a homogeneous category in these new reforms while women’s disadvantages remain unad- dressed. No wonder there is no debate on this issue in the en- tire noise of criticism or advo- cacy. Women farmers or agri workersneedspecialfocus,treat- ment,support,handholdingand mostimportantlythestructured reforms need to address the gen- dered issues in Indian agricul- ture. Lack of land entitlements leads to lack of institutional credit,pensions,rightstosourc- es of water and other inputs and technology access. Even production relations and bar- gaining capacities which are the essence of open markets are uniquel. The deep rooted sys- temic gendered issues obvi- ously distort the distribution of benefits and operations of mar- kets on which the current re- forms heavily rely. No special regulatory mechanism exists to insert these gendered concerns. Womens farmers entitlement issues need a fundamental de- bate and formalization. Land rights discrimination need to be addressed and seen as viola- tion of human rights as high- lighted by UN resolutions. Necessarylegislativesupport and infrastructure is required for implementation of the spirit of equality in land rights. Na- tional women’s policy by the Ministry underlined the impor- tance of land rights for the eco- nomic empowerment. NCW has also done some work in this di- rection but much more is need- ed. Issues related to control and ownershipandtenancyarecom- plex issues but they are very crucial to the empowerment of women engaged in agriculture. I intend to voice the urgency in the context of new reform. Thus when we claim these re- formsarethewatershedmoment forIndianagriculturewhichwill unshackle 43% of India’s work- force that is engaged in agricul- ture, do we picture the 80% wom- en engaged in agriculture that are already marginalized? Do we consider the importance of the implications of reforms in the process empowerment of rural women? I doubt we do! What bargaining capacities these marginalised women will have in the new mechanism of contract farming, FPOs and their leadership is questiona- ble. Whether they would experi- ence income expansion is also to be investigated. They are low on technology ladder, assets, leadership and agency. How these gaps are to be ad- dressed in reformed markets is unclear and thus a cause of concern. States can thus come forward and translate these arrange- mentsindesigninggendersensi- tive mechanisms leading to bet- ter empowerment indicators. NITI Ayog could play a vital role here in providing insights. The benefits of reforms should reach the doorsteps of the women farmers too as their lives need transformation too. They are the real Annapurnas. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL AGRI REFORMS THROUGH GENDER LENS S The bills to allow the private market and to enthuse and institute contract farming look promising and progressive in their very intent. MORE THAN 425 MILLION WOMEN CONTRIBUTE TO AGRICULTURE GLOBALLY, YET THEY DON’T HAVE EQUALITY IN TERMS OF LAND OWNERSHIP RIGHTS IN MORE THAN 92 COUNTRIES. DR. JYOTI KIRAN SHUKLA FORMER CHAIRPERSON OF. STATE FINANCE COMMISSION
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  • 6. INDIAJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 05www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday ex- tended greetings to the Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel and their families on the force’s 28th anniversary. In a tweet, Shah said the RAF has distin- guished itself in dealing with the challenges re- lating to law and order. “Greetings to RAF personnel and their families on their 28th anniversary. The RAF has distinguished itself in dealing with the chal- lenges relating to law and order. Time and again, their commit- ment in several human- itarian works and Unit- ed Nations peacekeep- ing missions has made India proud,” the Home Minister tweeted. The RAF, a special- ised wing of the CRPF, was raised in Oct 1992 initially with 10 unattached battalions and increased with 5 more units on January 1, 2018. These units were set up to deal with riots and riot-like situations, to instill confidence amongst all sections of the society and also, handle internal securi- ty duty.—ANI RAF’S 28TH ANNIVERSARY HM Amit Shah greets personnel, their familiesThese units were set up to deal with riots, to instill confidence amongst all sections of society & to handle internal security duty IRCTC’S TEJAS EXPRESS TO RESUME SERVICES FROM OCT 17 New Delhi: IRCTC said that it will restart the first set of “private” Tejas Ex- press trains from October 17, seven months after the Lucknow-New Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai services were suspended due to corona pandemic. It said every alternate seat on the two trains will be kept vacant to ensure social distancing and pas- sengers will be thermally screened before entering the coach.They will be provided a “COVID-19 protection kit”. “Use of face covers/masks will be mandatory for passengers and staff. All travellers will install Arogya Setu app. Detailed instructions will be given to passengers at the time of ticket booking, IRCTC said. WRESTLER BABITA PHOGAT QUITS GOVT JOB TO JOIN POLITICS Chandigarh: Wrestler Babita Phogat resigned from the post of deputy director in Haryana government’s sports department. Babita and kabaddi player Kavita Devi were appointed deputy directors on July 30.Babita said she had resigned as she wants to devote full time to active politics. “I have decided to campaign for BJP in Bihar assembly elections and Baroda bypoll in Haryana. Politics is not new for our family. My mother had served as village sarpanch and I learnt politics and wrestling during my childhood,” she said. UP MAN KILLS PREGNANT 14-YR-OLD DAUGHTER: COPS Shahjahanpur: In a suspected case of dishonour killing, a 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly killed by her father with the help of her elder brother after she became pregnant and refused to tell them who the father of the child was. “The matter came to light on Tuesday when villagers found the body of a girl with her head cut off in Dul- hapur village in Sidhauli area and informed the police,” SP, S Anand said. “During the probe it was found that she was six months pregnant and the father of the girl was interrogated,” he said. SENSEX RALLIES 304 PTS; NIFTY TOPS 11,700, SAY TRADE EXPERTS Mumbai: Equity bench- mark Sensex rallied 304 points on Wednes- day, tracking gains in index-heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC twins and Infosys. After opening on a weak note, the 30-share index gained ground to end 304.38 points or 0.77 per cent higher at 39,878.95. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty jumped 76.45 points or 0.66 per cent to close at 11,738.85. Titan was the top gainer in the Sen- sex pack, climbing over 4 per cent, followed by Bajaj Auto, Maruti, Reliance Industries, ONGC and UltraTech Cement. On the other hand, Bajaj Finance, PowerGrid, Tata Steel, NTPC and Sun Pharma were among the laggards. AMIT SHAH @AmitShah October 7 is a very important day in the country’s history. In 2001, on this very same day PM Narendra Modi had taken oath as the Gujarat Chief Minister, and from that day the journey of daily setting new milestones in the interest of the nation and service of the people, without stopping, without relaxing started. 20th year of NaMO. New Delhi: The Cen- tral Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has is- sued refunds of over Rs 1,21,607 crore to more than 35.93 lakh taxpay- ers between April 1, 2020, and October 6, 2020, said the Income Tax Department on Wednesday. The department said that Income tax refunds of Rs 33,238 crore have been issued in 34,09,246 cases. It further added that corporate tax re- funds of Rs 88,370 crore have been issued in 1,83,773 cases. “On further consid- eration of genuine dif- ficulties being faced by taxpayers due to Cov- id-19 situation, CBDT further extends the due date for furnishing of belated & revised ITRs for Assessment Yr 2019- 20 from September 30, 2020, to November 30, 2020. Order u/s 119(2a) issued,” the CBDT had tweeted. —ANI Direct tax refunds of over `1.21L cr issued since Apr EDarrestsCFO,internal auditor of Cox & Kings New Delhi: The En- forcement Directorate arrested Anil Khandel- wal, chief financial of- ficer of global tours and travel company Cox and Kings Group (CKG) in connection with the Yes Bank money laundering probe, the agency said in a statement. Besides Khandelwal, the agen- cy also arrested Nar- esh Jain, the group’s internal auditor. The arrests have been made under section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). Both the accused were produced before the Special Judge and were granted seven days of ED custody. The ED had claimed that the firm defaulted on loan payments worth Rs 3,642 crore. During the seven-day custody, ED officials intend to grill the two in relation with the ir- regularities and col- lect more evidence. Earlier this year, the ED conducted raids at premises belonging to the senior manage- ment of Cox and Kings Group (CKG) . On March 8, the agency arrested the bank’s former chair- man and managing director Rana Kapoor. The travel company was sent to bankrupt- cy court last year in October after default- ing on payments to the bank. The ED had been scanning its transactions to its borrowers. MLA probe in Yes Bank case revealed that the CKG forged it’s consolidated finan- cials by manipulating the balance sheets of overseas subsidiaries. Besides, some board resolutions submitted to banks for sanction- ing the loans were also found to be forged. “Further probe re- vealed that loan sanc- tion from Yes bank was driven by Kapoor and was given bypassing norms. ED gathered evidence regarding Kapoor’s direction to the concerned bank of- ficials to get the said loan continued and not to take efforts to recov- er it.” —PTI YES BANK CASE New Delhi: The Delhi High Court sought the Centre and the AAP government’s response on an inter-faith cou- ple’s plea challenging the provision of issuing a public notice to invite objections to marriages under the Special Mar- riage Act (SMA). A bench of Chief Jus- tice DN Patel and Jus- tice Prateek Jalan is- sued notice to the Min- istry of Law and the Delhi government, seeking their stand on the petition that con- tends the 30-day notice period discourages in- ter-faith couples from getting married. The bench listed the matter for further hearing on November 27. Advocate Utkarsh Singh, appearing for the couple, said there is no such provision un- der personal laws with regard to same-faith marriages. The Central govern- ment’s standing coun- sel, Monika Arora, said similar pleas have been filed by an NGO, Dhanak for Humanity, and it appears to be be- hind the present peti- tion as well. However, the bench said the petition raises legal issues which need consideration and asked Ms Arora to men- tion her objections in her reply to the plea. The petition con- tends that some objec- tions, like unsound- ness of mind of either party or they not hav- ing attained the age of marriage, that can be raised under section 4 of the Act “can be as- certained on the basis of certificates issued from a government hospital or any pre- scribed authority”. The plea says 30-day notice period inviting objections to marriage directly impinge on the fundamental rights of the petitioners.It urged court to declare as “il- legal, null, void and un- constitutional” the pro- visions of the Act. HC seeks govt’s response over plea against SMA New Delhi: Claim- ing that the “upper storey” of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is empty, Union Min- ister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that Ra- hul wouldn’t even know the difference between different crops and when they are sown and har- vested. Speaking to ANI about Rahul Gandhi’s offensive on the new farm laws, Naqvi said, “Someone should tell Pappu, that this is not the mummy ji or Manmohan ji gov- ernment that when the Parliament pass- es a Bill, you tear it in front of the people and call it non-sense or nuisance”. He said that this is PM Modi-led govern- ment, which works forbenefitof farmers, poor and the neglect- ed sections of the so- ciety with conviction, he said. —ANI RaGa doesn’t know when crops are sown: Naqvi New Delhi: The Prime Minister should break his silence and come out to face the many questions being asked in the country, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday. Taking a jibe at the re- cent visit of PM Modi to inaugurate the Atal Tunnel, Rohtang in Ut- tarakhand, the Con- gress leader said, “PM Ji, stop waving hands in the tunnel alone, break your silence. Face the questions, the country is asking many things from you,” the tweet read. The Wayanad MP shared a clip from his Tuesday’s press con- ference in Punjab in which he had advised Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi on several is- sues, ranging from COVID-19 manage- ment, to farm laws, and the Hathras inci- dent. He had also said yesterday that PM Modi in order to “save his image had handed over 1,200 sq km of In- dian territory to Chi- na.” He had also de- manded the PM to speak to the media over the several issues which are currently gripping the nation. Earlier yesterday, Gan- dhi had said that Con- gress’ ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ is against the ‘kaala kanoon’, which will destroy the exist- ing structure of agri- culture in the coun- try, affecting Punjab and Haryana most severely. —Agencies ‘PM MODI NEEDS TO ANSWERTHENATION’ RAHUL GANDHI@Rahul Gandhi “PM Ji, stop waving hands in the tun- nel alone, break your silence. Face the questions, the country is asking many things from you,” IN THE COURTYARD CASE SO FAR New Delhi: Election Commission of India (ECI) has revised the norms concerning star campaigners for all ongoing and future elections during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The maximum limit on the number of star campaigners for recognized Nation- al/State political par- ties shall be 30 in place of 40 and for unrecog- nized registered po- litical parties it shall be 15 in place of 20 during the period of pandemic.” Accordingly, period of submission of the list of star campaign- ers is extended from 7 days to 10 days from the date of notifica- tion, the norms read. Political parties, which have already submitted a list of star campaigners shall re- submit a revised list within the stipulated period, it states. “Re- quest for permission for campaigning by star campaigners shall be submitted to district election au- thorities at least 48 hours before start of campaign so all neces- sary safety measures are put in place,” ECI stated. —ANI Bihar polls: ECI reduces no of star campaigners due to Covid
  • 7. INDIAJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 06www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia WILL JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ BE CJ OF MP HIGH COURT? Name of Odisha HC Chief Justice, Justice Mo- hammad Rafiq has started doing the round for the post of CJ of Madhya Pradesh. He hails from Rajasthan. MS ANURADHA PRASAD IS ALSO DG, ESIC Ms. Anuradha Prasad has been assigned an addi- tional charge of Director General (DG), Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for a period of three months. She is a 1986 batch IDAS officer. JAIDEEP MAZUMDAR IS NEW AMBASSADOR TO HOLY SEE Jaideep Mazumdar, (IFS: 1989), presently Ambas- sador of India to Austria, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Holy See, with residence in Vienna. 16 IRS OFFICERS OF IT & CUSTOMS CADRES DEPUTED AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN ED As many as 16 IRS officers of both Income Tax and Customs cadres have been appointed as Deputy Director in ED on deputation basis. The officers are: Shraiy Suri, Arpita D Naharya, Arun Kumar, Gaurav Bharill, Rahul Singhania, Prashant Kumar, Ramadhan Dagar, Neha Yadav, Neeraj Gupta, Bhuvnesh Kumar Tiwari, Ajay Luhach, Madhur D Singh, Sachin Kumar, Mohan babu, Devranjan Mishra & Shubham Agarwal. SWARUP KUMAR SAHA APPOINTED ED, PNB Swarup Kumar Saha has been appointed Execu- tive Director, Punjab National Bank. SATYAN NARAYAN RAJU APPOINTED ED, CANARA BANK K Satya Narayana Raju has been appointed Execu- tive Director, Canara Bank. AGNI MITRA APPOINTED REGIONAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR, WCCB Agni Mitra has been appointed Regional Dy Direc- tor, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Eastern Region, Kolkata. He is 2009 batch IFS of AGMUT cadre. POWERGallery By arrangement with: http:// whispersinthecorridors.com Journalist, 3... According to police, in Mathura, all the four held are allegedly linked with Popular Front of India’s (PFI) student wing Campus Front of India (CFI) and were coming from Delhi and moving to- wards Hathras in a car and were stopped, said police. The UP government has maintained that there is a conspiracy to whip up caste and com- munal violence in the state and the Hathras police are now investi- gating a conspiracy an- gle in the case, which has created a political storm. The FIR has been registered under section 153-A of IPC (promoting enmity be- tween two groups), 295A of IPC (deliberate and malicious act in- tended to outrage feel- ings) 124 (A) (Sedition) beside section 17 and 14 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 and Sections 65, 72 and 76 of Information Technology Act. It further said that money transfer was not through lawful method and the money so gathered from inter- national sources was to cause riots. It was al- leged that pamphlets ‘Am I Not India’s Daughter’ were to serve these unlawful purposes. Chemistry Queens... extremely high preci- sion. This technology has had a revolution- ary impact on the life sciences, is contribut- ing to new cancer ther- apies, and may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true,” it added. Public spaces... Protest is a fundemen- tal right, it is subject to reasonable restric- tions. On March 23, the Shaheen Bagh sit-in protest against the citi- zenship law was cleared by Delhi police after curbs were im- posed on assembly and movement of people in wake of the coronavi- rus pandemic. The pro- test had been on for more than 100 days. Rhea Breathes... Rhea Chakraborty will “spend her night after a month in her own bed,” Rhea Chakraborty’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde said. While granting bail to Rhea Chakraborty, the Bombay High Court all but demol- ished the Narcotics Control Bureau’s case against the 28-year-old actor, who was accused of being “an active member of a drug syn- dicate”. The High Court said she was not a part of a chain of drug dealers. The order also noted that the investigation had found Sushant Sin- gh Rajput used to pro- cure drugs and many others helped him. “Since she has no criminal antecedents, there are reasonable grounds for believing that she is not likely to commit any offence while on bail,” the or- der said. Rhea is ac- cused of buying drugs for her boyfriend Sush- ant Singh Rajput. The High Court said “sim- ply providing money for a particular trans- action or other trans- actions will not be fi- nancing of that activi- ty” and allegations of spending money in procuring drugs for Su- shant Singh Rajput “do not mean that she had financed illicit traffic.” The court also noted that the actor’s charges did not involve com- mercial quantity of drugs. In her bail peti- tion, Rhea had said that she and her broth- er were sole targets of a witch-hunt by multi- ple agencies who had found no evidence in- criminating her. Investigations into Sushant Singh Ra- jput’s death, which started with a suicide probe, have taken wild twists and turns over the past few months. The CBI took over the case after Rajput’s fa- ther accused Rhea of mentally harassing the actor. —Agencies FROM PG 1 New Delhi: The Cabi- net Committee on Eco- nomic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday ap- proved "natural gas marketing reforms" with the decisions aimed at providing a standard procedure for sale of natural gas in a transparent and competitive manner to discover market price through e-bidding. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meet- ing, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minis- ter Dharmendra Prad- han said the cabinet has approved a stand- ardised e-bidding pro- cess to make natural gas pricing mecha- nism transparent. "The government is investing Rs 4,00,000 crores for building gas infrastructure. Our de- pendency on imported fossil fuels is decreas- ing. To make natural gas pricing mecha- nism transparent, the Cabinet today ap- proved a standardised e-bidding process," Pradhan said. He said Director- General Hydrocarbon (DGH) will suggest a panel of e-bidding platform in front of producers. "Guidelines will be made for e-bidding. Provisions will be kept to maintain clarity and transparency. Produc- ers will have the choice to choose a platform. The producing compa- ny cannot participate in the bidding process as there can be a con- flict of interest," Prad- han informed the me- dia.—ANI CCEAAPPROVESNATURALGAS MARKETING REFORMS New Delhi: Prime Min- ister Narendra Modi will launch a ‘Jan an- dolan’ campaign for Covid appropriate be- haviour on Thursday in view of upcoming festi- vals, winter season and opening up of the econ- omy. PM Modi will launch the campaign by way of a tweet, a release issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said. The campaign will be launched with the aim to encourage people’s participation and it en- deavours to be a low- cost high-intensity cam- paign with the key mes- sage of wear mask, fol- low physical distancing, maintain hand hygiene. The campaign will be launched in view of the upcoming festivals and winter season as well as the opening up of the economy, the statement said. A Covid-19 pledge will be taken by all and a concerted action plan will be implemented by central government ministries, depart- ments, state govern- ments and UTs. NHRC urges action to protect victims of covid-19 New Delhi: The Na- tional Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has released an adviso- ry suggesting urgent action to protect the vic- tims of the COVID-19 pandemic, including children. “Urgent action is re- quired taking into ac- count the constitution- al obligations, domes- tic laws, the UNCRC’s general principles and the SDGs to safeguard the lives and dignity of 39% of India’s popula- tion which was impact- ed due to the pandem- ic,” the NHRC said. According to the Commission, there are reports of increased violence against chil- dren, both physical and sexual, child marriage, and child trafficking. Cases of child abuse and safety increasing during lockdown is evi- denced by the increase in calls to helplines. Concerns regarding the health and safety status of children in Child Care Institutions (CCIs) including the specific risk of being infected with Corona as well as barriers to children’s access to justice as im- posed by the lockdown were also reported. “State action must balance out the dis- criminatory impact of COVID-19 on children such that increased vul- nerabilities are ad- dressed promptly,” NHRC reiterated. —ANI PM TO LAUNCH ‘JAN ANDOLAN’ FOR COVID-19 APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR Nagar Nigam workers spray disinfectant to sanitize the civil line area as a preventive measure amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Prayagraj on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI Guidelines will be made for e-bid- ding. Provisions will be kept to maintain clarity and transparen- cy. Producers will have the choice to choose a platform —Dharmendra Pradhan, Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister India’s recovery rate leaps past 85% New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recovery rate leapt past 85 per cent on Wednesday with 82,203 con- firmed recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed. The total number of recoveries in the country now stands at 57,44,693, while 72,049 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 9,07,883 which is 13.44 per cent of the positive cases in the country. As per MoHFW, the number of recovered cases is 6.32 times the number of active cases.—ANI THE CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS
  • 8. SEC urged to hold local bodies polls in phases NEWSJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 07www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia R ajasthan is con- sidered to be a tourist state with such a strong in- frastructure of tour- ism that viruses like Swine Flu, Zika, An- thrax and Sars could not put it off track. However, the Corona- virus pandemic cer- tainly brought the mighty heritage tour- ism to its knees. There are more than 10 lakh people who are directly or indirect- ly dependent on the tourist trade in the state which include the small vendors, hawk- ers, tourist guides, ma- hauts, folk artists and big hotels resorts etc. CM Ashok Gehlot re- alised this quite early that all these people were severely affected due to the ongoing co- rona crisis and there- fore without losing time he instructed PS (Tourism) Alok Gupta along with all other senior officials to take necessary steps to make Rajasthan a safe and healthy tourist destination as soon as possible. The tourism depart- ment is very clearly focused on increasing the domestic tourists up to the maximum possible number so that the good start that the tourist season has witnessed in the begin- ning of October is con- tinued till the end of the tourist season. Putting Pandemic behind, Raj opens up for tourists! Tourism department is focused on increasing the domestic tourists so that the season sees a promising start, writes Nirmal Tiwari BIGGEST DRAWS! Nahargarh and Amber fort in Jaipur were the biggest tourist attractions in the state with former attract- ing more than 18,000 and latter being host to more than 20,500 tourists in the month. Besides Jaipur, Alwar, Gagron fort and Chittorgarh were the biggest attractions in the state. PANDEMIC INDUCED CLOSURE The pandemic lead to closure of all historical monuments & museums, national & biological parks and safaris on March 18. Apart from this the other stakeholders like hotels, resorts and restaurants were also closed which led to the loss of hundreds of crores of rupees to the state tourism. DESTINATION TOURISTS The reopening of the tourist destination started with unlock phase 1 on June 1 but the entire month of June could only attract 5269 tourists to the Pink City while minuscule 3537 tourists visited the rest of the state. The onset of monsoon increased the number of tourists in the state although it was nothing compared to yesteryears but it was a sol- ace to have 19326 tourists in the state out of which 12665 visited Jaipur while 6661 visited the rest of the state. The month of August witnessed the arrival of 42600 tourists in the capital while 13093 tourists visited the rest of the state. COME SEPTEMBER! It was the month of September with the begin- ning of tourist season officially from September 1 that the real arrival of the tourists started in this state this year. September saw as many as 56,931 tourists visiting Jaipur while 27,904 thronged the other tourist destinations of the state. The total number of tourists in September for the state stood at 84,835 which was 30,000 more than the total number of tourists in August. It is expected that the number of tourists will cross 1 lakh in the month of October. Ashish Jaipur: Rajasthan Election Commission on Wednesday held a meeting with home and police departments to discuss deployment of police personnel in elec- tion duty during the up- coming elections of lo- cal bodies and panchay- at samities. Various issues relat- ed to deployment were discussed in the meet- ing chaired by the state election commissioner PS Mehra. He asked the officials to ensure deployment of policemen in the ar- eas, where elections will take place, in ade- quate numbers so that the law and order could be maintained. The department offi- cials proposed the com- mission to hold elec- tions in municipal cor- porations, Zila Pari- shad and panchayat samitis in phases. The commissioner said that a rise in the number of polling booths is likely in the upcoming elections of municipal corporations of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota and therefore the arrangements for po- licemen will have to be done accordingly. ADG (law and order) Saurabh Srivastata as- sured the commission that the elections will be held in a peaceful manner. Special secre- tary (home) V Saravana Kumar and secretary of the commission Shyam Singh Rajpurohit were present in the meeting. Abhishek Srivastava Jaipur: Theoldglorious days of Jaipur Develop- ment Authority (JDA) might return soon as its Commissioner IAS of- ficer Gaurav Goyal has taken on the challenge of improving the finan- cial condition of the de- velopment body. The JDA’s financial condition was in a bad shape when Goyal took charge of the post of JDA Commissioner in the first week of July this year. Goyal considered it as a challenge and fo- cused all his attention on strengthening the JDA’s economic posi- tion. It is with efforts of Goyal and his team, Un- der a close supervision of UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal, that the JDA generated Rs 311 crores as revenue from the auction and lottery of the plots in three months from July to September while aver- age Rs 92 crores were earned during last some financial year. This has enabled the JDA to issue adminis- trative and financial ap- proval for development works at a cost of Rs 107 crores on a large scale after eight months. In the last some financial years, this figure was Rs 168 crores average. Infact Goyal is lucky to have a dynamic and per- forming UDH minister like Dhariwal and even Goyal acknowledges that. “This achievement is not of my own but of the entire team of our JDA officials. It has been made possible by the untiring efforts of this team. On the direc- tion of minister Shanti Dhariwal, JDA will soon start large infra- structure projects for the city,” said Goyal. A total of 85 new works have been approved in three months whereas 193 new works were sanctioned in the last financial year. The re- solve of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to priori- tise e-governance to eliminate corruption has also been well real- ized in these three months. Online leases of 3,713 plots have been issued in three months from July to September. JDA will launch three more new schemes till Navratri in view of the response of the public to the recently an- nounced four schemes. In these four schemes, e-auction of around 300 corner plots will also be started from October 15. Gul Mohammed Kota: Condolences con- tinue to pour in for Lok Sabha Speaker Om Bir- la whose father Shrikrishna Birla passed away recently. On Wednesday as well many public represent- atives, politicians and people from all walks of life reached Birla’s Dada Bari residence in Kota and offered floral tributes to late Shrikrishna Birla. For- mer MP Ramesh Chand Tomar, Bhind MP Sand- hyaSumanRai,Gwalior MP Vijay Narayan, for- mer minister Babulal Verma, former MP Chintamani Malviya, former minister Arun Chaturvedi, industrial- ist Jagdish Joshi were among prominent peo- ple who offered condo- lences. Former MoS Sushil Katara, BJP state Gen Secy Bhajan- lal Sharma and Con- gress state Gen Secy Chhagan Mahoor also paid their respects. Arun Chaturvedi and Bhajan Lal Sharma re- membered late Birla’s stellar role in the coop- eratives movement and called it inspiring for generations to come. Apart from these large number of people belonging to various so- cial and religious or- ganisations and politi- cal parties also offered their attributes at the Birla residence. JDA’s lost glory returning, gradually! Public representatives, politicians among others continue to visit Kota to console Speaker Birla KKR BEATS CSK BY 10 RUNS MS Dhoni, captain of Chennai Super Kings gets clean-bowled during IPL 2020 cricket match against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. PS Mehra, Saurabh Srivastava, V Saravan Kumar and Shyam Singh Rajpurohit during the meeting Shanti Dhariwal Gaurav Goyal Bhajan Lal, Arun Chaturvedi, Chhagan Mahoor offering condolences to Om Birla in Kota on Wednesday. THE OVERBURDENED BABU! IAS Siddharth Mahajan is confused and bamboozled. Although he has been given the responsibility of Food Department but he is unhappy with the additional charge of the Panchayati Raj department. He already has additional charge of two departments - Relief and Planning. And now he has additional charge of total four departments. Siddharth, a 2003 batch IAS officer, has become Secretary in January 2020 and although he is not too senior a bureaucrat, it is surprising that he has been given responsibility of important departments like planning, food, panchayati raj and relief. During the initial days of Corona pandemic, he worked in challenging situations and circumstances in the food department, but he was transferred in July. However, when his replacement - Hemant Gera- could not perform in the department, Siddharth was brought back. The burden of excessive responsibilities on Siddharth is definitely wrong and although he has approached the senior officials and requested that his load be brought down, any relief seems far away. Truth be told, Siddharth wants to go to Delhi and even he has been chosen to become OSD to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, yet the file on this issue is awaiting clearance from the CMO for the past eight months. KYA KAREIN, KYA NA KAREIN! IAS Alok Gupta was as troubled in the past as he is now. The reason for his situation being non-appointment of any officer on posts under Gupta in the Tourism department. The responsibility of Director Tourism and MD RTDC was also on Gupta and he was ‘one in all’ in the department. But now the state government has posted an IAS - Vikas Sitaramji Bhale - on both these posts, who is a ‘renowned’ and controversial officer. When he was Director in Agriculture department, his ‘acts’ were too well known and the then ACS (Agriculture) Pawan Kumar Goyal had ran from pillar to post and got Bhale removed from Krishi Bhawan. Bhale is a 1999 batch IAS and is just three years junior to Alok Gupta whereas the posts held by Bhale now - Director Tourism and MD RTDC - has had officers several years junior. Under such a situation, Alok Gupta may face several problems in coordinating with Bhale and getting him to work. Alok Gupta was troubled for not having any officer under him in the past, now he is more troubled for having such an officer under him! In fact Bhale is likely to be a challenge before his boss, a low profile and soft spoken Alok Gupta. —Rajendra Chhabra —PHOTOBYANI
  • 9. Congratulations to the Indian Air Force and all my countrymen on Indian Air Force Day! IAF- we are proud of you, keep the flag flying high! —Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor, First India JAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 08 2NDFRONTPOSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21 WILL INVESTIGATION REACH PILOT’S DOORSTEP? Naveen Sharma Jaipur: The new DG for ACB BL Soni took the charge of his new assignment after tak- ing blessings from Lord Ganesh at the Moti Dungri Ganesh temple. Speaking to the media, DG Soni said that in accordance with the zero toler- ance for corruption policy of the state government, he will try to common peo- ple’s access to the bu- reau easier. He said along with continu- ing the good work be- ing done at the bu- reau, more corrupt government person- nel will be identified. Soni said he would also be open to sug- gestions from the common people to make the work of ACB more efficient. Soni said that his 5 year working experi- ence with apex agency like CBI is going to come in handy for him, while working at ACB. He assured the people that he would immedi- ately take action on every matter brought to his notice. Later, the new ACB DG visited ACB head- quarters where he met all the outpost incharg- es who welcomed him ceremoniously. ACB DIG Sawai Singh Godara, SP Yo- gesh Dadheech, Harendra Mahawar along with other of- ficers were also pre- sent at the occasion. ACB ADG Dinesh MN, who was not in the office, called up DG BL Soni on phone and congratulated him. Act with sensitivity in crimes against women, says CM Gehlot Shivendra Pramar Jaipur: Going from strength to strength, Ra- jasthan Housing Board (RHB) has yet again proved that better man- agement can help to overcome economic slump and financial woes brought by the Co- ronapandemic.Thiswas evident on Wednesday when the RHB sold off a nine square meter shop in Madhuban Scheme at Jodhpuratninetimesits listed price! The list pricefortheshopwasRs 6.75lakh,however,itwas sold off for Rs 49 lakh! Similarly, another 9 sq mt shop in the same scheme, with a list price of Rs 6.30 lakh, was sold off for Rs 17.33 lakh ie two and a half times the list price. On this Wednesday,theRHBsold a total of 286 properties generating a revenue of Rs 41 crore. “People were excited to take part in the ‘Apni Dukaan - Apna Vyavs- aay’ scheme of the RHB. On the first Wednesday of this scheme total 185 commercial properties were sold generating 26.57 crore rupees in rev- enue. Moreover, 101 resi- dential properties under the Wednesday Auction were also sold off which brought another 14.25 crore rupees in revenue to the RHB’s kitty,” said Pawan Arora, Commis- sioner, RHB. Launched by CM Ge- hlot a week back, the scheme has sold off properties worth 27 crore rupees in its first week and therefore it is already a success on its first day! RHB ‘records’ highest single property return! Will make layman’s access to ACB easier: Soni takes charge Subham Jain Ajmer: Health minis- ter Raghu Sharma on Wednesday said that the state government’s movement against co- rona was started be- cause people had be- come careless towards the virus spread. Sharma said that therecoveryrateinthe state is 85-86 percent which is highest in top big states of the coun- trywhilethedeathrate is 1 percent, lowest in the country. Because of this, the minister said, people became careless and therefore the state gov- ernment launched a mass movement againstcoronatomake peopleaware.Themin- ister said that 1 crore masks will be distrib- uted under the cam- paign and various oth- er activities are being undertaken to create awareness. Sharma along with the minister in charge of Ajmer and agricul- ture minister Lal- chand Kataria was in Ajmer on Wednesday. During the visit, boththeministersheld a meeting with district level officers and dis- cussed various issues like water, electricity, road etc. They also flagged off an aware- ness rally and distrib- uted masks. Sharma, while talk- ing to reporters, reject- ed allegations that the government was hid- ingthefigurerelatedto coronavirus. Agriculture minis- ter Kataria said that a girdawari report is be- ing prepared to assess the losses to crops and report is awaited. He said that the af- fected farmers will get compensation. Raghu, Kataria flag off corona rally in Ajmer Dr Raghu Sharma, Lalchand Kataria release poster for corona awareness drive. Rakesh Pareek, Suresh Tank, Bhavani Singh Detha,Arushi Malik, Prakash Rajpurohit were also present. BL Soni taking charge as DG, ACB. CM Ashok Gehlot with Shanti Dhariwal, Govind Singh Dotasra, Pawan Arora during launch of Super Hit ‘APNI DUKAN APNA VYAVSAY’ yojna. Dr Rituraj Sharma Jaipur:Sincetheshuffle of eleven IAS officers late on Monday night, it appears that the bureau- cracy has been going through bit of a rough weather, because, while all 10 officers accepted their ‘fate’, it was IAS P Ramesh, who ‘rebelled’ against the order of his transfer from ‘power’ to the position of Division- al Commissioner of Udaipur division. The rebellion came mainly, duetotheongoingtussle between Ramesh and Ajitabh Sharma after Ramesh laid allegations of Sharma’s involve- ment in a tender worth over hundred crore ru- pees, and submitted a VRS application! Through the day the top bureaucracy and evenCSRajeevaSwarup madeattemptstocontact Ramesh, to no avail and it was late in the evening that the CS and Ramesh talked.Whileitappeared as if the matter had end- ed on Tuesday, Wednes- daybroughtwithitfresh ‘issues’ as word spread in bureaucratic circles that the issue is not set- tled. Therefore, on Wednesday the CS spoke to him at length on with- drawing the VRS appli- cation which he has not rolled back till late Wednesday night. Interestingly, union ministerGajendraSingh Shekhawat opened a frontagainstGehlotgovt saying that after the gen- eral public, now the har- assment of bureaucracy is out in open. Ramesh’s VRS ‘rebellion’ looms large! Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Chief Minis- ter Ashok Gehlot has instructed the state po- lice that it should take prompt and sensitive action in cases of crimes against weaker sections of society in- cluding women and girls. “Our government has ensured that every complainant is heard in the police stations and no complainant has to run around for getting an FIR regis- tered,” Gehlot said while reviewing vari- ous issues related to law and order in the state at the Chief Min- ister’s residence on Wednesday night. He held a thorough review on the subjects of law and order, crimes re- lated to women, organ- ized crimes, curbing drug trafficking, speed- ing up action against mafias etc. and gave directions to senior po- lice officers. “The State Govern- ment has implemented the policy of compulso- rily hearing and regis- tering FIRs which is being continuously monitored. There has been a significant re- duction in the crimes recorded and the num- ber of FIRs filed has come down from 31 per- cent to just 13 percent,” Gehlot said. The CM said that the Special Investigation Unit for Crime Against Women set up in all 41 police districts of the state for crimes related to women has the ef- fect that there has been a significant reduction in the time taken for rape and POCSO cases. “Earlier, the police used to take 278 days on an average in the research of these crimes, while this unit has reduced time by 40 percent due to the for- mation and monitor- ing of this unit and now it is taking an av- erage time of 113 days,” Gehlot said and directed that a letter should be written to the Union Home Min- istry to make similar arrangements in all the states in the man- ner in which the Ra- jasthan Government has compulsorily lodged the FIRs of eve- ry complainant in the police stations. Gehlot also instruct- ed to activate CLG, train village guards and take their services. During the meeting, Principal Secretary (Home) Abhay Kumar informed that NL Mee- na, Secretary (Home) has been appointed to investigate all the as- pects related to the re- cent violent develop- ments in Dungarpur and Khairwada of Udaipur. He also appreciated the investigation done by the police in the rape case at Thanagaji in Alwar. Secretary (Home) NL Meena appointed to investigate the recent violence in Dungarpur and Khairwada CM Ashok Gehlot during the review meeting. Board sells property at nine times the listed price COVID-19 UPDATE RAJASTHAN 1,590 DEATHS 1,50,467 CONFIRMED CASES GUJARAT 3,531 DEATHS 1,46,672 CASES DELHI 5,616 DEATHS 2,98,107 CASES WORLD 10,57,836 DEATHS 3,62,74,696 CONFIRMED CASES INDIA 68,29,678 CONFIRMED CASES 1,05,519 DEATHS MAHARASHTRA 39,072 DEATHS 14,80,489 CASES TAMIL NADU 9,984 DEATHS 6,35,855 CASES KARNATAKA 9,574 DEATHS 6,68,652 CASES From P1 Rahul being busy in par- ty affairs during the day, his response was not available till Wednesday night. Pilot camp claims that Pilot got a ‘positive’ response from the three committee members. Meanwhile, Jaipur po- lice has categorically stated that only the law of land is taking place in this case and there is no political vendetta or any instructions from ‘high- er-ups’. Pilot has report- edlyaskedhislegalteam to provide all possible help to Lokendra and Sharat Kumar. However, at this critical juncture, Pilot is going to Jodhpur this morning to pay his condolences to late Jas- want Singh’s family. According to police sources, main charge against Pilot’s media ad- visorLokendraisthaton 7th August 2020, during the course of MLAs ‘badabandi’atJaisalmer, Lokendra made viral a list of almost two dozen phone numbers includ- ing the mobile numbers of afewCongressMLAs, which were factually in- correct and defamatory. Thevirallistalsoinclud- ed the names of almost half a dozen such Con- gress legislators, who after shifting their loy- alty with Pilot camp, have subsequently joined Gehlot camp and were camping at Jais- almer’s five-star hotel. This has sent a very ‘dis- turbing’messageamong these MLAs because they thought that their own ‘mentor’ and leader Gehlot was himself spy- ing on them. A hurt and disgusted CM had contradicted all the rumors at that mo- ment but a complaint was registered in Jaipur by the local police saying that the entire incident has damaged the reputa- tion and credibility of the Jaipur police. After having a prima facie ver- ification of the com- plaint,nowJaipurpolice has registered a formal FIR against the two jour- nalists. Aaj Tak’s Rajasthan EditorSharatKumarhas been charged for airing this phone taping news on the channel. In re- sponse to this charge, Sharat has questioned the wisdom and proprie- tary of Jaipur police on why to only book him under the law, whereas the said news was also publishedandcirculated on a number of other leading newspapers and news channels. Sharat says that it is an act of discrimination under the law. Subsequently, in the evening, on his Youtube channel, Sharat carried a frontal attack on the Gehlot government and openly supported Pilot on various grounds. According to Gehlot camp sources, the CM himself was ‘hurt and pained’ with this ‘act’ of a friendly journalist to whom he always shared completetrustandconfi- dence but still, his gov- ernment did not initiate any legal action at that moment. It was only at initiative of Jaipur po- lice that the preliminary inquiry was conducted which was followed by a formal FIR. Prior to this ‘Badabandi’ phone tap- ping case, Sharat was always considered very close to Gehlot but how Sharatlosthis‘equation’ with the chief minister, still remains a mystery. In Rajasthan media circles, Sharat perhaps happens to be the only senior journalist, who used to enjoy an equal andsimilarrapportwith all the three big wigs of Rajasthan ie Gehlot, Vasundhara and Pilot. But in the changing world of ‘relationships’, Gehlot and Sharat have completely fallen apart to the extent that Sharat is facing a serious crimi- nal case under Gehlot government itself. —FILE PHOTO P Ramesh CHIEF MINISTER REVIEWS LAW AND ORDER Sharat Kumar Lokendra Singh
  • 10. www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 09 A lesson in TIMETIME ule Gulzar, chhayi bahaar’ was how my father would often address my mother and on being asked once what does it mean, he told me that it was Sunil Dutt’s favour- ite dialogue from Waqt! I sim- ply had to see it! Waqt is a classic, everything about it is well drawn from the storyline, dialogues, charac- terisation, music to the songs, it’s about life, love, fate, hope and family. It’s one of my all-time fa- vourites and it’s really diffi- cult to pick out the best parts. The love story of a chirpy full of life Sunil Dutt and a breath- takingly beautiful Sadhana with simply lovely songs set on the undercurrent of trag- edy that has befallen the fam- ily of Balraj Sahni keeps one rooted to the screen. The immensely hummable songs ‘Hum jab simat kar aap- ki, Kaaun aaya ke, Chehre pe Khushi chhaa jaati’ hai cou- pled with the hugely popular till date ‘O’meri zohra jabeen’ by Manna Dey where Balraj Sahni woos the blushing Achala Sachdev on the same date birthday of his three sons. My sympathies were with Raaj Kumar who loves and loses Sadhana to Sunil Dutt, the MOMENT where he goes to kill his rival to find a child- hood photo identifying him as his younger brother stills the breath and the famous dialogue in his drawling voice- “yeh bachhon ke khelne ki cheez nahin, haath kat jaaye to khoon nikal aata hai,” which I went around mouth- ing for a full week flaunting a fruit knife at my siblings! Shashi Kapoor played the devoted son at crossroads, his love for Sharmila Tagore on a back burner as he tried to bal- ance the reality of his life. Sharmila’s harsh truth to Sunil Dutt which brings the transformation from playboy to responsible lawyer and a peek into the issues of birth, family background and re- spect for labour. The car race between Raaj Kumar and Sunil Dutt is quite interesting though nothing on the car races of today. The heroines in their fashionable cut clothes woo the audience as does the grandeur of the locales. Rehman is his usual suave self as Chinoy Seth who un- ravels in the famous court- room scene where finally the family comes together in a fi- nal heartrending scene which did not leave a single dry eye. Balrah Sahni gives a perfor- mance of a lifetime and he was a consummate actor par excellence, his hapless search for his family missing them by seconds- Raaj in the orphan- age where he murders Jeevan in pain and anger and his wife with young Shashi Kapoor when they move to Mumbai- keeps one engaged. Waqt reminds me of Sholay in the fine moments and deep characterization of all it’s ac- tors strewn across three hours of relentless drama, music, performances and fine direc- tion which keep the mind, heart and soul engaged. A les- son of life! JAIPUR, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 2020 This Throwback Thursday we bring you one of the first multi starrer blockbusters 1965 - Waqt - the first colour film by BR Chopra productions, directed by Yash Chopra, it spawned a generation of family ‘separated and reunited’ multi-starrers! ANITA HADA anita.hada@firstindianews.com ‘G
  • 11. 10 ETCJAIPUR | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia FACEOFTHEDAY NIHARIKA TIWARI, Content Creator YOUR DAYHoroscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva LEO JULY 24 - AUGUST 23 You have a contagious smile and use it in your best ability. Obnoxious behaviour should be avoided at all cost in business matters. Times are tough but where there is a will there is a way. Open up to your close ones if you are facing any challenges in your life. LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 An exciting opportunity will knock at your door and will provide you a chance to make money. Bickering around is a waste of time rather invest yourself building strong relationships. Your seniors will acknowledge your efforts in work and will truly admire your dedication. ARIES MAR 21 - APR 20 You manage to find solutions to all your problems. You are on the threshold of achieving something that you wanted for a long time. Valiant and pivot is how you can be defined. One person’s loss is another person’s benefit and right now you are the one who will gain. SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22 Considering the alarming health crisis, you must watch what you eat as your body is your only most precious temple now. Immaculately dressed is how people define you. People may misunderstand your silence but in the end people see you for who you truly are. GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 21 You will find a mentor who will give a shape to your ideas. Whining over what has been lost is not a sensible thing to do, move ahead with time and with faith in yourself give your best in something new. You will get attracted to someone with absolute opposite views. AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19 Work from home is a new trend but that doesn’t give you the liberty to take it any easy. Devouring one book after the another is your current hobby and you have completely dedicated yourself to it. Dedication is must in these trial times as any source of income is a blessing. TAURUS APR 21 - MAY 20 Wealth tickles in and your dry spell on financial front ends. You are always looking forward to try something new on business front and you never settle for anything but the best. Demeanour plays an important role when it comes to being a part of an elite group. CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 20 Many small failures in life acts as a stepping stone towards success so never let yourself feel discour- aged with temporary setbacks. Judicious use of time is the need of this hour. You may have to struggle a little but your future is very bright. You may fall in love at the first sight. VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 Don’t be confused when it comes to making decision regarding your future, trust your instincts and forge ahead. Procuring goods on time will remain your priority for today as far as your business is concerned. Spirituality is the answer to your problems, indulge yourself in it. CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 23 You need to keep a check on your emotions as you may feel overwhelmed. Adhere to the terms of your job and there is nothing to worry. Be efficient and innovative in your work. A good reputation in market will help you in long run. Care about those who matters in your life. PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20 A sentence of motivation can really cheer someone up and change their life so deal with a youngster in family. Sycophants are always around but it depends on you if you wish to be influenced For students this is a very precious time to change their weakness into strength. SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22 Time is a valuable asset so do not waste it. You are very conscious of your karma and you believe in action and reactions. Endowment received to give wings to your dream must be appreciated and used in the right direction. Its still not too late to regain your ground on academic. Sponsored by Rodic Consultants Pvt. Ltd. oft-spoken and pe- tite, Dr Shivani Swami is the con- sultant pulmonolo- gist at the Naraya- na Multispeciality Hospital in Jaipur. She has a gruelling day which begins at 9.00 am and goes on right till the evening. Earlier, Narayana was not a COVID Center, but now it is; which has only increased her work- pressure. She has worked in some of the most pres- tigious hospitals in the country like Medanta: The MediCity in Gurgaon and the Fortis Hospital in New Delhi. In an exclusive in- terview with City First, she mentioned, “I have not met my parents for 7 months, even though they live in Jaipur”. Q1. What have been the last 7 months like for you as a Pulmonolo- gist? Ans. Well, you can imag- ine that my parents live in the same city and I haven’t met them for almost 7 months. Since I am coming in contact with so many COVID patients, I wanted to protect them from the virus. Q2. What is your typical day like in these times of pandemic? Ans. My day begins at 9 am and I am seeing patients right till 4.30 pm. And I am in a PPE kit. Which means no food to eat, no water to drink and no visit to the toilet. When I reach home around 5 pm – that is the time I eat. From 5.15 pm to 6.30 pm, I sit in my per- sonal clinic and see patients. The clinic is followed by video consultancy for many patients. So you can see that it is a packed day. Q3. Narayana wasn’t a COVID Center till re- cently, which meant a lesser number of pa- tients in comparison to the COVID Centers? Ans. Not really. There were elective patients (non-COVID) for asth- ma and other respira- tory diseases. Fur- thermore, at the OPD there were a lot of COVID patients com- ing. They were, of course, prescribed tests and medicines. If they were in-home quarantine, I was guiding them on a daily basis. Recently, the hospital has start- ed a dedicated COVID ward which has to some extent increased the work pressure. Q4. There is a lot of de- bate about what med- icines one should take as soon as one tests positive? Apart from Vitamin C, Zinc and Vitamin D combo. Ans. I would begin with Ivermectin on day one itself. I would also recommend Dox- ycycline. Then de- pending on the condi- tion of the patient, I would recommend Remdesivir which in- volves admission to a hospital. FabiFlu could also be a medi- cine of choice de- pending on the pa- tient. Q5. How do you see things unfolding in the next few months? Ans. We will have to learn to live with COV- ID-19, I guess. Q6. What would you ad- vise the patients who have just recovered from COVID-19? Ans. They have to first of all continue with their medicines and vitamin supplements. They must continue with their respirato- ry exercises and then they have to strictly follow the protocols like physical distanc- ing, hand hygiene and most important of them all, wearing a mask. They must also remember that re-infections are hap- pening and the sec- ond time around COVID is much more severe. And I strong- ly recommend a flu shot for everyone. Q7. Wherever you have worked you have been involved with the sleep treatment. Is this a passion of yours? Ans. Yes, it is. This is one area I have super specialised in. In fact, a year ago I had already established a sleep clinic in Naray- ana Hospital but with the coming of the COVID, it has taken a backseat for the time being. NEHAL NAYAR nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in ‘I HAVE NOT MET MY PARENTS‘I HAVE NOT MET MY PARENTS FOR 7 MONTHSFOR 7 MONTHS’’S Dr Shivani Swami