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Mumbai police likely to move SC, questioning Bombay HC verdict in the 2002 Bandra hit-and-run case

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News BriefEx-NMCE chief denied bail after

son fails to returnAgency | Ahmedabad

Gujarat high court re-fused bail to former chairman of National Multicommodity Ex-change of India Ltd (NMCE), Kailash Gup-ta because his son living in the US did not turn up to cooperate with investigators. Gupta is accused of committing fraud of Rs 28 crore on the company by involv-ing his family members. His son, Amit, is also facing charges in the case and investigators, including Enforcement Directorate (ED), want-ed to question him.Patel leader claims he is seeking truce

between PAAS, govt

DGCA warns airports over

animal incursions

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

After six months of agitation, there are in-dications that the ag-itating Patidar Ana-mat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leaders and the state government may come to the ne-gotiating table. Amid conflicting reports that Hardik was ready for a truce, a prominent Kadva Patel leader from Morbi said that he was in talks with the quota stir leader for a compromise with the government.

Agency | New Delhi

With animal incursions endangering the lives of travellers at some airports, the Director-ate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has belatedly cracked the whip. After completing an audit of 20 airports that were identified as being most vulnera-ble to such incursions, the regulator has asked the Airports Authori-ty of India (AAI) and the states concerned to take remedial steps for augmenting safety measures and submit an action-taken report for each place.

The 2002 hit-and-run case is coming back to haunt Salman Khan“Hit-and-Run Case”

Agency | New Delhi

The Mumbai police are all set to question the Bombay High Court’s (HC) acquittal of the ac-tor before the Supreme Court (SC). The Mumbai police feel that the HC’s findings are “contradic-tory”. The draft Special Leave Petition (SLP) is now with the Maharash-tra government for its nod. Sources told dna that the HC’s adverse inference over non- ex-amination of Salman’s friend Kamal Khan, who was present in the vehicle at the time of the incident, would be

Agency | Meerut

A day after Indian pac-er Mohammad Shami’s brother Mohammad Ha-seeb was booked he was later released on bail for allegedly assaulting a po-lice officer and “pressur-ing cops“ to release a few men arrested on charges of cow slaughter, the cricket-er’s father said his family was in “danger“ and that

the emotive issue of “gau hatya“ was being used to target them. “My son was not even present there at the time of the incident and had reached the site only much later,“ Tauseef Ahmad told TOI on Fri-day. “He (Haseeb) was just an onlooker like so many others who had gathered there. He was unnecessar-ily dragged into the con-

Agency | New Delhi

Petrol price was on Friday cut by 32 paise a litre and diesel’s by 85 paise a li-tre, the fourth reduction in rates in six weeks on the back of softening global oil prices. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 59.03 per li-tre with effect from mid-night tonight as against Rs 59.35 per litre currently. A litre of diesel will cost Rs 44.18 as opposed to Rs 45.03 presently, said Indi-an Oil Corp (IOC), the na-tion’s biggest fuel retailer. This the fourth reduction in rates since December 1. Rates were on that day cut by 58 paise a litre in case of petrol and by 25

Salman acquittal may be challenged

Petrol becomes cheaper by 32 paise, diesel by 85 paise/litre

paise in diesel. This was followed by a 50 paise a litre reduction in price of petrol from December 16 and 46 paise in case of diesel. Petrol price, on January 1, was cut by 63 paise per litre and diesel’s by Rs 1.06 a litre. The re-duction would have been more but for government raising excise duty on the two auto fuel to take away

some of the gains from the crude oil prices slumping to 12-year low of under USD 30 per barrel. The government had on De-cember 17 raised excise duty on petrol by 30 paise and that on diesel by Rs 1.17 per litre. This was followed by a 37 paise in-crease in the levy on pet-rol from January 3 and Rs 2 per litre on diesel.

`Cow slaughter’ being used to target us: Pacer Shami’s father

troversy. It is just that a few persons are nurturing enmity with our family be-

cause of the publicity we have got after Shami start-ed playing for team India.

the “impeccable ground in the appeal.” “It is a strange situation. It was the HC which did not allow Kamal Khan to be summoned during the pendency of his appeal. But in its judgment, the HC asks why Kamal Khan was not brought in as witness. We will also

raise pertinent points like whether Salman was drunk while driving, collection of his blood samples, hotel bills of JW Marriott etc,” said sources. The HC had dis-allowed Salman Khan’s application for summon-ing Kamal Khan on No-vember 30, 2015, a few

days before the verdict. “How can the HC now draw an adverse in-ference about the trial court’s de-cision to go ahead with the trial without the testimony of Kamal Khan?” sources said. Although Kamal Khan’s statement was re-corded, the trial court recorded that summons were not served on his Mumbai address. The police

had claimed that Kamal Khan is a British citizen and resides in the UK. The Maharashtra government is yet to take a final call on the draft SLP. But it has to file the appeal in 90 days from the date of judgment. On May 6 last year, the trial court had convicted and sentenced the 49-year-old actor to five years in jail in the 2002 hit-and-run case.

While reversing the trial court’s conviction order, the HC said that after the incident, the police had recorded the statements of Patil and Kamal. During the trial, Pa-til’s statement, which was recorded before the magistrate, was used by the trial court to convict Salman. Patil died of TB during in October 2007 while the trial was going on.

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QUOTE OF THE

DAYArrest of a comedian: A law prone to misuse

The episode of the arrest of Kiku Sharda, ac-tor-comedian, under Section 295 (A) of the IPC, for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda, borders on the absurd. It also raises questions about the mindless manner in which the police invoke this section. It was introduced in the IPC in 1927 in controversial circumstances and later, the judiciary had clarified that it only punishes “the aggravated form of insult to religion perpetrated with deliberate and mali-cious intention”. The indiscriminate way in which this section is used to intimidate authors and ar-tistes calls for a serious deliberation about its use and misuse. Sharda, who allegedly mimicked the Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, had apol-ogised after followers of the sect complained and thereafter, the leader himself tweeted his willing-ness to forgive. Yet, the urgency shown by Haryana Police in flying down to Mumbai and arresting the actor at midnight from his shooting location was remarkable. Ironically, the dera head himself has been under attack in the past from the Sikh clergy for allegedly violating tenets of the religion. The Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda started in 1948 as a social and spiritual organisation and under the flamboyant Ram Rahim Singh acquired a profile that annoyed conservatives among the Sikh clergy — and its following has invited the attention of the political class in Punjab and Haryana. Orginally emerging as spiritual platforms for castes excluded from a religion that appeared to be drawing harder lines, Dera Sacha Sauda and many similar sects are now replicating the very same structures and prac-tices that led to their birth and popularity. The dera phenomenon is also a reflection of the growing social and political crisis in Punjab. The agrarian crisis and militancy in the 1980s damaged the state’s economy and social fabric, giving rise to deindustrialisation and a serious drug problem. The failure of the polit-ical leadership to address these issues gave the deras the opportunity to deliver services that ought to have been provided by the state. Instead of a course cor-rection, however, political parties appease the deras in the hope of riding their influence to power. With the state headed for elections in 2017, the incentive to bend before influential social organisations, irre-spective of their conservative agendas, is high. In other words, a law prone to misuse and a political executive unsure of its own footing has led to the bizarre arrest of a comedian.

“(Wife) Kiran and I have lived all our lives in India. For the first time, she said, should we move out of India? That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers everyday. That does indicate that there is a sense of growing disquiet,” - A day after BJP leader

Ram Madhav advised Aamir Khan to preach his wife about India’s prestige ...

‘Chalk N Duster’ made tax-free in Bihar Delhi, Rajasthan, uP

Agency | Mumbai

Actor Saqib Saleem says he is extremely proud that his next, Bollywood adaptation of Hollywood supernatural film “Ocu-lus”, has shaped up well. The 27-year-old “Mere Dad Ki Maruti” star will be sharing screen space with his sister Huma Qureshi for the first time in the Prawaal Raman-di-rected movie. “We have finished the film about 90 per cent with only eight to ten days of shooting left, which we will finish

in a couple of months. We are looking at a May-June release right now. It has shaped up really well, I am very excited… I just saw it two days back and I was very proud of it,” Saqib said. The re-make, like the 2013 orig-inal film, focuses on the story of a brother-sister duo, who get separated at a young age due to an antique mirror. Saqib says the makers have a few names in mind for the yet-untitled project and will reveal it soon. “When the film is slight-

ly in the thriller-horror space, we don’t have a vocabulary in Hindi for it. What will we call it, ‘Shaapit Sheesha’? So that way it is difficult to come with a name which justifies the film… But in all honesty, we have a couple of titles, so we will be revealing the name soon.” Meanwhile, the actor will be seen in the upcoming season six of Celebrity Crick-et League where he is playing for actor Sohail Khan’s team, “Mumbai Heroes”.

I am very proud of ‘Oculus’ remake: Saqib Saleem

‘Power Rangers’ alum Ricardo Medina Jr charged with murder

Hate any kind of nation-bashing in films: Akshay Kumar

Agency | Mumbai

“Chalk N Duster”, a film based on the commer-cialisation of education in India, has been made tax-free in Delhi, Rajas-than, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, says actress Juhi Chawla, who plays a piv-otal role in the movie. “Impressed by the film, states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have confirmed tax exemption for ‘Chalk N Duster’,” Juhi posted on Twitter.

Agency | Los Angeles

Former “Power Rangers Samurai” actor Ricar-do Medina Jr is charged with the 2015 murder of his roommate Josh Sutter, nearly a year after it was announced that he would not face any charges for the same case. The 36-year-old

Agency | Los Angeles

Jennifer Lawrence, who is nominated at the Oscars for her role in “Joy”, says it is great to be recognised along side other amazing women in the best actress category. “I am beyond grateful and humbled by this nomination. I feel incredibly honored to be recognized among the other amazing women in this category. Joy is an incredibly inspiring story

about an ordinary woman who does extraordinary things,” Lawrence said in a statement. “For me, working with David O Russell has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I share this nomina-tion with him as well as our incredible supporting cast. I could not be more proud to be a part of this film and thankful to the producers and Fox for their unyielding support,” she added.

Agency | Kolkata

Actor Akshay Kumar says he detests nation-bashing in films. “It’s (Airlift) not about a nation, it’s about saving people. I hate any kind of nation-bashing in films. I don’t like it,” the actor told the media here on Thursday while pro-moting his forthcoming film “Airlift”. Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, “Airlift” also stars “The Lunchbox” fame actress Nimrat Kaur. Akshay plays a character who had a crucial role in the evac-uation of Kuwait-based Indians during the Iraq-Kuwait war in 1990. The story of the film is from the point of view of Akshay’s character who helped Indians get airlift-ed from Kuwait. As the poster of the film sug-gests – 1,70,00 refugees,

actor was arrested on Jan-uary 14 on a felony com-plaint of murder, reported Aceshowbiz. If convicted, Ricardo actor will face up to 26 years to life in prison. Los Angeles District Attor-

ney’s office mentioned in a press release that prosecu-tors demanded that Ricar-do’s bail be set at USD 1 million. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday, January 19.

The movie also stars Shabana Azmi and Divya Dutta. Shabana shared: “Tax exemption for @CNDtheMovie in Delhi also! Four governments

cutting across party lines vote for ‘Chalk N Dust-er’. Your vote matters the most.” Directed by Jayant Gilatar, the film released on Friday.

488 flights, 59 days and one man. Air India en-tered into Guinness Book of World Records for the civil airline that had evac-

uated the most people till date. Akshay said the pi-lots of Air India were the biggest heroes. “Hats off to them,” he added.

Humbled by Oscars nomination: Jennifer Lawrence

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Joe Root century, Ben Stokes turn third Test in England’s favour

Shakib-al-Hasan lifts Bangladesh to four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in 1st T20I

Agency | Johannesburg

Joe Root hit a thrilling century for England as he and Ben Stokes trans-formed the third Test against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Fri-day. England were 238 for five when the threat of lightning brought an early close on the second day, 75 runs behind South Af-rica’s first innings total of 313. Root was on 106 not out, his ninth Test century. A fifth-wicket partnership of 111 in 78 minutes off 97 balls with Stokes (58) swung the match dramat-ically in England’s fa-vour after a four-pronged South African pace attack had reduced the tourists to 91 for four. Root and Stokes counter-attacked,

posting a fifty partner-ship off only 35 balls in a match where the aver-age scoring rate had hov-ered at around three an over on a pitch offering help to the fast bowlers. “He takes the pressure off you,” Root said of Stokes. “He comes in and plays aggressively, the slips come out and there are men on the boundary. You can run well between wickets because there all those gaps. Hopefully he can continue in the form he is in for the rest of the trip.” Root reached the first half-century of the match off 77 balls with nine fours. He admitted that he struggled in the early stages of his innings against some high-quality pace bowling.

Agency | Khulna

Bangladesh made a win-ning start to 2016, cruis-ing past Zimbabwe by four wickets in the first of their four Twenty20 internationals on Friday. Zimbabwe rode a 101-run partnership between Hamilton Masakadza and Vusi Sibanda, their highest opening stand in T20s, to pile up 163-7. Bangladesh eclipsed it with 166-6 and eight balls to spare. “We could have finished the game in 17 or 18 overs had we not lost the wickets at the start, and then Mushfiqur and Sabbir in quick succes-sion, but Shakib played his part nicely,” Bangla-desh captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza said. Ban-gladesh had 31 up in the fourth over when

Agency | Khulna

Opener Unmukt Chand’s 58-ball 103 went in vain as Priyank Kirit Panchal’s unbeaten fifty helped Gu-jarat outplay Delhi by eight wickets in the Super League phase of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 Group B cricket match. Put into bat at the Band-ra Kurla Complex, Del-hi lost a couple of quick wickets including skip-per Gautam Gambhir for a duck only to see Un-

mukt and Aditya Kaushik (23) stitch a 54-run third wicket stand to help the side post a competitive 170 for five, which was later chased down by Gu-jarat in 17.3 overs. Brief Scores: Delhi 170/5 in 20 overs (Unmukt Chand 103, Aditya Kaushik 23; Hardik Patel 1-27, R P Singh 1-29) lose to Gu-jarat 171/2 in 17.3 overs (Priyank Panchal 68 not out, Parthiv Patel 42; Parvinder Awana 1-23, S Bhati 1-43).

Soumya Sarkar, back in after missing the last se-ries against the same op-ponent, was run out after a mix-up with Tamim Iqbal. Tamim shook it off and plundered the bowl-ers with 29 off 24 balls before he was out in sev-enth over. Sabbir Rah-man then took the anchor role, and was supported by Mushfiqur Rahim, who made 26 off 19, sending the ball across the rope three times. Zimbabwe raised hopes

of clawing back, dismiss-ing Sabbir after he hit 46 off 34, with four bound-aries and one maximum, at 118-4. But Shakib Al Hasan held his nerve to seal the victory with an unbeaten 20 off 13, with two fours. Legspinner Graeme Cremer returned 2-32. Zimbabwe put up a decent total thanks to Ma-sakadza, who smashed 79, equaling his highest score in T20s. He clob-bered two sixes and nine fours. Sibanda added 46.

unmukt Chand ton in vain as Gujarat outplay Delhi

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Correspondent | Rajkot

The Shree Somnath Trust (SST) is a religious char-itable trust registered un-der the Gujarat Public Trust Act, 1950. The Trust is governed by a deed that lays down the terms of its settlement with the then government of Saurash-tra state. The Trust is the sole authority to manage and maintain the Som-nath temple and 64 other temples in Prabhas Pa-tan, its guesthouses, and the 2,000 acres of land it owns. The SST is differ-ent from the committees that manage other major temples like the Dwark-

Correspondent | Vadodara

Two persons, including a senior citizen, lost their lives after their throats were slit by kite strings laced with glass pow-der on the first day of Uttarayan festival, po-lice said today. The two, who were riding motor-cycles, died last evening in separate incidents,

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

In a setback to the Gu-jarat government, the high court today ruled that an act passed by the state assembly in 2008 to empower Sardar Sa-rovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL) to redeem its bonds before maturi-ty was illegal. A bench of acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and Justice

N V Anjaria termed the SSNNL (Conferment of Power to Redeem Bonds) Act, passed in March 2008, as “ultra-vires” and “void”. However, the court also said that its order would come into effect after two months. The court further direct-ed the petitioners as well as investors, who have already redeemed their bonds, to approach the

civil court to collect the amount of loss they have incurred due to the Act. The matter had reached the high courts of Gu-jarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka after the Gu-jarat government passed the Act in March 2008, which empowered SSN-NL, a government com-pany, to redeem the deep discount bonds (DDB) issued to investors be-

fore maturity, which was ending in January 2014. These bonds were issued in 1994 to raise funds for the Sardar Sarovar project, comprising the dam and canal network. Through these bonds, which had a 20-year ten-ure, government raised Rs 257 crore in 1994. The bonds offered a lu-crative 18.9 per cent in-terest.

Sunvilla News | Gandhinagar

The Army today said that number of youths from Gujarat joining the armed forces has seen consistent rise off late. A statement issued by the defence spokesperson wing com-mander Abhishek Matiman on the occasion of the 68 th Army day here today said, the major publicity initia-tives comprising of ‘Know your Army’ and ‘Southern Star Info Campaigns’ have borne fruits in the state in the recent times. There has been a consistent increase in the number of youth re-cruited from the state in the past year and a half. The last four Army recruitment

rallies starting with the one at Patan in February 2014 where approximately 400 candidates were finally selected at a recruitment percentage of 0.98%, has consistently grown with the September 2014 Rally at Palanpur seeing approx-imately 500 selections at a selection rate of 1.31%, followed by Himmat-nagar Recruitment Rally in March 2015 which saw the number of selections surging to around 725 at doubled selection rate of 2.5% The data bears testi-mony to the success of the sustained efforts of the Gu-jarat based Golden Katar Division of the army, the statement said.

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Acknowledging that farmers are not getting minimum support price (MSP) for their produce in many parts of the coun-try, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today said a pri-vate agency will be roped in for procuring various crops. “Farmers in many parts are not getting the MSP decided by the Cen-tre for various agri-com-modities. In the eastern part of India, farmers are not getting the MSP of paddy despite our best efforts,” Singh said here. The minister added that the government has de-cided to rope in a pri-vate agency for procure-ment of various crops.

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Profile of the Shree Somnath Trust Govt to rope in private agency for agri procurement: Minister at IIMA

Army sees consistent increase in recruitment from Gujarat

Kite string claims two lives in Vadodara

adhish temple, in that governments do not get any share of the temple revenue. The SST claims the right to regulate en-try to the temple, and had issued public notices last

year asking non-Hindus to seek permission from the general manager of the temple before enter-ing the main structure. The Trust is governed by an eight-member Board

of Trustees, including a chairman and a secretary. Member Trustees vote in elections to the post of chairman every year. The secretary’s tenure is not fixed.

Singh was speaking at ‘AMAETHON-2016’, a three-day internation-al food, agri-business and rural development summit organised by the Indian Institute of Man-agement-Ahmedabad (IIMA). He further said the Centre’s existing ef-forts to boost agriculture sector will succeed only

when entrepreneurs and state governments work effectively alongside farmers. Singh called for more discussion and co-ordination among key stakeholders for achiev-ing the targets of farm development amid the challenges of rising popu-lation, climate change and limited natural resources.

Stating that the govern-ment has made concerted efforts for the farm sec-tor’s development, Singh said the focus is on mak-ing agriculture a “more sustainable and profitable occupation by raising production and encour-aging entrepreneurship, cooperativeness and crop innovations.”

they said. Bhupendra Govardhanbhai (63) and Mayur Anil Patel (16) bled to death in Kareli-bagh and Bhayli areas, respectively, after their throats were slashed by deadly ‘manjha’ (razor sharp kite threads), po-lice added. Their bod-ies were sent to Gujarat Government-run SSG Hospital for post-mor-tem. Uttarayan (Makar Sakranti) is the day when the Sun starts to travel northwards marking the decline of winter. Kite flying is an integral part of Utarayan, the two-day festival, which is a ma-jor event in Gujarat.

Act allowing premature redemption of SSNNL bonds illegal:Gujarat HC