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Chargsheet filed against Kejriwal, Sisodia in CS ‘assault’ case

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Delhi Police on Monday filed a charge sheet against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs for allegedly assaulting Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash in February.

The charge sheet, filed in the Patiala House Court on the basis of investigation done on the complaint of Prakash, also names Amanatullah Khan, Prakash Jarwal, Nitin Tyagi, Rituraj Govind, Sanjeev Jha, Ajay Dutt, Rajesh Rishi, Rajesh Gupta, Madan Lal, Parveen Kumar and Dinesh Mohania.

“On February 20, a case was registered on the complaint of Prakash. After completion of the investigation and upon collection of evidence on record, a charge sheet has been filed in the court,” a Delhi Police official said.

The Chief Secretary had alleged that he was beaten up by AAP MLAs in the presence of Kejriwal at the Chief Minister’s residence here on the night of February 19, where he had been called for a late-night meeting.

Pollution check: SC okays colour-coded stickers for vehicles

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The Supreme Court on Monday accepted Centre’s proposal to have hologram-based colour-coded stickers on vehicles that would help in identifying automobiles running on various kinds of fuels.

A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice Deepak Gupta asked the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to implement by September 30 the scheme of colour-codes stickers on vehicles plying in National Capital Region (NCR).

The Centre told the bench that the diesel vehicles will have orange stickers pasted on their windshield while petrol and CNG vehicles will have blue stickers.

The bench also suggested the Centre to to consider having green number plates for electric and hybrid vehicles.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A.N.S. Nadkarni told the court that the ministry would look into it and decide soon.

The issue of colour-coded stickers was raised when the court was hearing a petition on air pollution in Delhi-NCR.

Advocate Aparajita Singh, assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the case, had told the court that there should be coloured stickers for petrol and diesel vehicles according to the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) suggestions.

The amicus curiae said the colour-coded stickers would help to identify the kind of fuel being used in vehicles.

The Centre also told the apex court that there was no objection to putting stickers on vehicles.

Somnath Chatterjee: A die-hard Marxist forsaken by his party

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For long the voice of Opposition, Somnath Chatterjee was the first Communist Speaker of the Lok Sabha and one who defied his party and refused to quit the post over the Indo-US nuclear deal in 2008, leading to his expulsion from the CPI-M.

From championing the cause of the downtrodden as one of India’s finest parliamentarians and barristers and settling effortlessly into the role of wooing investors to industry-dry West Bengal, Chatterjee donned many a hat with ease and aplomb during a four-decade public career.

The tall, heavily built man with a majestic personality evoked awe at first sight. But beneath that stern exterior lay a tender heart that cared for the poor.

His aggressiveness, baritone, legal acumen and sharp debating skills were big assets not only for the CPI-M but for the opposition benches as a whole in pinning down the government during his three decades in the Lok Sabha. But beyond that Chatterjee always came out as an affable person, gentle in his manners and rising above petty politics.

Perhaps it was this quality that stood Chatterjee in good stead in stewarding the Lok Sabha as Speaker from 2004 to 2009. Excepting Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who once hurled papers and her shawl towards the Speaker’s podium, no other MP ever accused Chatterjee of being partisan in conducting the House proceedings.

The rivalry between the two went a long way back. It was by upsetting the CPI-M stalwart in the 1984 general elections from Jadavpur that Banerjee – then a youth Congress leader virtually unknown in state politics – cut her teeth in politics. That was Chatterjee’s only electoral defeat and the beginning of Banerjee’s ascendancy.

However, Banerjee too mellowed and in 2012, a year after taking over as West Bengal Chief Minister, she had proposed his name along with those of Manmohan Singh and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as her choice for President.

Chatterjee was perhaps the right disciple of his mentor and the late Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu, who shared a similar high-society upbringing and educational qualifications.

Through his political life and even after he was expelled from the CPI-M in 2008, Chatterjee remained close to Basu who had a great liking for Chatterjee. So much so, that as West Bengal Chief Minister, he coaxed and cajoled Chatterjee to take over as chairman of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corp (WBIDC) to woo investors.

Chatterjee put his heart and soul into the job, met industrialists and toured various countries, inking MoUs worth thousands of crores of rupees, though it was another thing that very few of the pacts matured into industrial projects on the ground. The opposition in Bengal lost no opportunity to make fun of Chatterjee, jokingly calling him “MoU da”.

Another interesting contradiction lay in Chatterjee’s family ties. Though he remained a Marxist all his life, his father Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee was a Hindu revivalist and one of the founders and one-time president of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha.

Parliamentarians from the BJP had at times made mocking reference to the “Marxist Chatterjee” by highlighting this aspect.

Born on July 25, 1929 in Tezpur in Assam, Chatterjee studied at the Mitra Institution School, Presidency College and the University of Calcutta.

He then proceeded to England to earn B.A and M.A degrees in Law from the Jesus College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar from London’s Middle Temple and started legal practice as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court.

Chatterjee joined the CPI-M in 1968. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1971 from Burdwan in a by-election as an independent candidate backed by the CPI-M. The seat had fallen vacant after the death of his father Nirmal Chatterjee.

He made it to the Lok Sabha on CPI-M ticket from Jadavpur in 1977 and 1980 and from Bolpur in 1985, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. From 1989 till 2004, he served as the Leader of the CPI-M in the Lok Sabha.

Chattterjee rose to become a central committee member of the party but was expelled on July 23, 2008 “for seriously compromising the position of the party”.

Chatterjee had then contended that the office of the Speaker was above party affiliations and he ceased to be a CPI-M member once he took over the job.

In an interview to IANS, Chatterjee had called his expulsion the “saddest day of my life,… I was sad then, I am sad now also. It is not like weather that it will change”.

West Bengal CPI-M leaders, however, constantly kept in touch with him, and even sent feelers that if he applied again admitting his mistake, he would be readmitted. But the principled man, steadfastly refused, while making it clear, that he would be game if the party on its own took him back.

But that was not to be. And to the last day, Chatterjee remained party less, while nursing a void deep in his heart.

Rain claims 5 lives in Himachal; hundreds stranded as highways shut

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Heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh claimed five lives and hundreds remained stranded across the state after incessant rainfall triggered landslides and snapped road links, an official said on Monday.

Three persons were killed in Mandi district in landslide incidents, while a boy was washed away in the swollen Kaushalya river near Parwanoo in Solan district.

Reports said five persons were buried under a landslide near Chakla village in Kandaghat in Solan district. One of them reportedly died. Rescue work is still on.

After heavy overnight rains, most of the roads in the interiors of the state remained closed to traffic on Monday, stranding hundreds of travellers and commuters.

The Chandigarh-Manali National Highway-21 has been closed for vehicles near Mandi town, an official said. Likewise, traffic on the Chandigarh-Shimla National Highway-5 was hampered near Chakki Ka Mor in Solan district.

The Mandi-Pathankot, the Chamba-Pathankot and the Shimla-Nahan national highways were blocked by landslides.

Vehicular movement in Kinnaur district remained suspended since a large stretch of the Hindustan-Tibet Road has been under landslides at several points.

An official said the road network in the higher reaches of Kinnaur, Shimla, Chamba, Mandi, Kullu and Sirmaur districts was the worst affected and efforts were being made to reopen it.

As a precautionary measure, all schools and educational institutes in Shimla, Solan, Kullu, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kinnaur and Mandi districts were closed for the day.

According to the Met office here, moderate to heavy showers have occurred in most parts of the state since Sunday.

Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur district recorded the highest rainfall in the state at 239 mm, while it was 238 mm in Sujanpur Tira town in Hamirpur district.

Nehri town in Mandi district recorded 235 mm in the past 24 hours, while Palampur town recorded 212 mm.

It was 172 mm in the state capital, 142 in Dharamsala town, 98 mm in Kasauli, 94 mm in Solan town and 57 mm in Dalhousie.

The weather office has forecast heavy rains across the state till Tuesday.

Tirupati medical college student commits suicide

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A girl student of Sri Venkateswara Medical College in Tirupati committed suicide on Sunday, the second such incident in a week, police said.

Gitika, 19, was an MBBS second-year student. She ended her life by hanging at her house here in the evening. police said. The reason for her suicide is not known.

The incident came a week after the suicide of B. Shilpa, a postgraduate student in paediatrics, who hanged herself at her house in Pileru town of Chittoor district.

The 30-year-old student had in April written to Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, accusing three Professors of Pediatric Department of sexual harassment.

The student was upset after she failed in exams. She told her friends that she was deliberately failed for complaining against the Professors.

Following an uproar, authorities transferred the college Principal and formed in May a three-member inquiry committed headed by the Director of Medical Education K. Babji. The panel is yet to submit its report.

Woman honey trapping men with fake social media accounts held with lover

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A woman and her boyfriend along with his friend were arrested by the Soladevanahalli police for extorting money through the honey trap.

Arpitha B N (22), her 25-year-old boyfriend Pavan Kumar and his friend Siddhartha (45) are the arrested. According to a complaint filed by one of the victims the trio was taken into custody.

Arpitha used to lure the men on social media platforms with fake profile pictures. First, she would send friend requests to men and invite them over. Once they come to her place, she used to seduce them. Then his boyfriend and his friend would barge into the house as a police officer and as a news reporter in a pre-planned strategy and would go on to rob him.

The victims than would be threatened by framing in an immoral trafficking case and send them to jail. The trio has looted several victims, say police.

Their extortion bid came to light when one of the victims, a grocery shop owner informed the police.

In his complaint, the victim stated that the woman took groceries from him and promised to pay later. She invited him over on the pretext of making the payment. Pavan and Siddhartha barged into the house and robbed him of gold jewelry worth Rs 1.3 lac by threatening him. They also forced him to withdraw Rs 55,000 from an ATM on July 31. They later blackmailed him, saying they had clicked and filmed him during his intimate moments with Arpitha. They threatened to upload the photos and videos to social media if he didn’t pay up Rs 1 lac.

According to the police, the woman had married a relative five years ago but he had deserted her. After moving to Bengaluru, she befriended Pavan and the couple planned to extort men with the help of another accused Siddhartha, who posed as a policeman.

Police investigation showed that Arpitha had married a relative five years ago but her husband deserted her. She then moved to Bengaluru and befriended Pavan. The couple came up with the idea of honey trapping people to make a quick buck. Pavan roped in his friend, Siddhartha, who posed as a policeman.

Congress, JD (S) leaders show outrage on BJP for shifting Aero India Show

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The news of shifting of the Aero India Show, the aviation exhibition, that was being held in Bengaluru since the last two decades, to Lucknow has caused severe criticism and outrage in the state of Karnataka. Congress and JD (S) leaders have accused BJP that this was done keeping in mind the upcoming Lok Sabha elections to appease the people of Uttar Pradesh.

“If the Aero India Show is shifted indeed to Lucknow, it will be a great humiliation done to the Kannadigas by defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman,” said deputy chief minister (DCM) Dr. G Parameshwar. He was speaking after partaking in a programme that was organized at the Ravindra Kalakshetra in the city on Sunday, August 12.

Parameshwar further complained that “The state government does not have any concrete information about the shifting of the show from Bengaluru to Lucknow. In case if this is true, it will be a huge insult to the Kannadigas by the defense minister who got elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka itself,”

“The aviation exhibition is being held since the last 22 years in the city of Bengaluru and it is a matter of pride and honor to the country and state. Earlier governments of the state also have extended their best co-operation for this event. The present government is also giving full support for this event. Then why this event is being shifted? There is no infrastructure here?” he questioned.

“If the event is shifted, then there will be a severe condemnation of the same,” he warned.

When Parameshwar has questioned whether this move is political, he replied by saying that if the news of shifting is true, then we must understand that there is no other reason but political.

H D Kumaraswamy, chief minister of the state, accused BJP and said, “The Aero India Show is being organized in Bengaluru since 1996. However, the move of shifting this to Lucknow this year is not right. The central government has taken this decision with the Lok Sabha elections in mind. Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of Lok Sabha seats in the country. Because of this, the central government is shifting this event to Lucknow. Thereby it is doing injustice to the state of Karnataka. This is not right. Bengaluru city has got the entire basic infrastructure necessary for the show. However, so far I have not received any official communication from the center in this regard,”

D K Shivakumar, irrigation minister, urged that the state BJP leaders have to take a delegation to center and put pressure on the Prime Minister to hold the Aero India Show in Bengaluru itself.

“The decision of the central government of shifting the Aero India show to Lucknow is not correct. Chief minister Kumaraswamy has already met the defense minister and appealed her not to shift the show. State BJP leaders like Yeddyurappa, Sadananda Gowda, Ananth Kumar, Jagadish Shettar and union ministers of Karnataka state should question the injustice that is meted out to the state of Karnataka by the central government. The state government is once again going to urge the central government to retain this show in the city itself,” said, D K Shivakumar.

Siddaramaiah, former chief minister of the state expressed his unhappiness on the issue on Twitter and said, “Due to the stance of the BJP, defense deals are being taken away from the state one by one. It is not right to shift the air show even when the necessary infrastructure is available in the city. The bitter news of shifting the air show from the city is like rubbing salt over the wound of Rafael deal which was snatched from HAL,”

Bengaluru the garden city tops major polluting city.

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Beating the highly polluted Delhi, the Garden City Bengaluru has topped the list of six major polluting cities in the country.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report, the state capital recorded the second-worst pollution due to increased industrial activities, a high number of diesel generator sets, road dust, and vehicle emission.

However, Lakshman, chairman of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), has reacted with skepticism. “Bengaluru does not have so many polluting industries. I don’t think these are accurate numbers. I will verify the numbers,” he told TOI

India steps up vigil on borders with Bangladesh, Myanmar

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Ahead of the Independence Day, Indian authorities have asked security forces to increase vigil along the international borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said on Monday.

Border Security Force troopers are guarding India’s border with Bangladesh while the Assam Rifles are deployed along the country’s frontier with Myanmar.

“We have asked the BSF to further intensify vigil along the India-Bangladesh border to check any trespassing and clandestine trans-border movements,” Tripura’s Inspector General of Police (law and order) K.V. Sreejesh told IANS.

Additional security in all entry and exit points of Tripura were deployed and CCTV cameras were installed to closely monitor the movement of vehicles and people, he said.

“Security was also stepped up at the airports, railway stations, bus terminus, shopping malls, market and crowded places. Close vigils are being kept at all places that are sensitive and important,” Sreejesh said.

“Night patrolling has been increased. Bomb and dog squads are doing constant rounds,” he added.

Besides the border forces, Tripura police, Tripura State Rifles and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are also keeping vigil within the state.

In Aizawl, an Assam Rifles official said that their troopers were on high alert along the unfenced India-Myanmar borders to curb infiltration.

Smuggling of drugs and arms has also come down to a large extent, the official said.

While Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share an 1,880-km border with Bangladesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh share a 1,640-km unfenced border with Myanmar.

An official of the Airports Authority of India said entry of people, except for passengers, into the terminal buildings across the northeast has been barred. The restrictions will continue till August 18.

SSLV rockets preparing to launch on demand : ISRO

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With an eye on cutting costs and having an on-demand launch, ISRO today said it was preparing Small Satellite Launch Vehicle rockets to launch payloads in three days with the help of just three to six people.

“The interesting aspect of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) is that it can be readied on demand with a minimum launch infrastructure,” ISRO chairman K Sivan said.

He said it takes about 300 to 400 people between 45 to 60 days to prepare major satellite vehicles.

But the SSLV would require only 72 hours and three to six people.

“We need to integrate the vehicle and launch it. It is innovative and provides an opportunity for commercial launches for other countries. Autonomy is more in this vehicle.

Already the vehicle is in the design phase… there is an opportunity for commercial launch,” he said.

Sivan revealed ISRO’s commercial plans during an interaction with reporters on the sidelines of a function to mark the 127th birth anniversary of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the architect of India’s space mission.

Sivan said the important demonstration flight of SSLV would be carried out sometime in May or June next year.

“The specialty of this mission is the cost of the vehicle, which is one-tenth of PSLV. The payload will be 500 to 700 KG and it will be launched in a lower orbit.

The length of the vehicle would be 34 meters, with a 2-meter diameter. It is an on-demand launch with a minimum launch infrastructure,” said Sivan.

Commercial production of this vehicle will be taken up by Antrix the commercial arm of ISRO, once the design is complete and development was ready by mid-2019, he added.

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