WARANGAL  FRIDAY  JANUARY 29, 2021  `7.00  PAGES 12  CITY EDITION CJI TICKS OFF CENTRE FOR NOT CURBING HATRED ON TV The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Centre for not checking TV programmes which instigate or impact a community REPORTS CAN’T BE USED TO INCITE VIOLENCE CAN’T CONTROL LIVE TV SHOWS, SAYS GOVT Control over certain news is essential for the maintenance of law and order, said a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde. It noted problem arises when reportage is used to incite violence. “Yesterday, you (govt) shut down internet and mobile because of farmers’ visit to Delhi. I don’t know what happened in the TV yesterday,” the court added ■ Such preventive measures are as important as providing ‘lathis’ to policemen, the bench observed ■ The SC made the comments while hearing a plea on media’s alleged biased reporting in the Tablighi Jamaat case ■ Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said govt can’t control live shows SC SAID GOVT CAN USE CABLE TV NETWORKS ACT 1994 TO CONTROL TV BROADCAST CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ WARANGAL ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Centre starts dealing with agitators with iron hand Oppn to boycott Prez’s House address today G AYAT H R I M A N I / S I D D H A N TA MISHRA/HARPREET BAJWA @ New Delhi PROCEEDING swiftly in the Republic Day violence case, the Delhi Police on Thursday issued 44 look-out circulars (LOC) against three dozen farm union leaders. They have been asked to join the probe by January 31 and directed to bring their passports along. Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh government started to clear the Ghazipur agitation site. LoCs are used by immigration officials to prevent accused persons from leaving the country. The process of seizure of passports has been initiated by the home ministry and is a ma- jor decision, officials said, explaining that all people who have been named by Delhi Police in the FIRs will not be carrying Indian passports till the matter is pending. Officials said the decision was taken on Thursday morning by Union Home Minister Amit Shah who has been holding a series of meeting with top officials of the Home Ministry and Delhi police since Tuesday when the large scale violence took place in the national capital during the farmers tractor rally. Shah has been continuously monitoring the situation in Delhi, a home ministry official said, adding that the minister is expected to chair a second meeting on Thursday night to Another bizarre ruling on minor sex assault sexual intent, was stayed by the Supreme Court. Experts feel the move sets a THE Bombay High Court has dangerous precedent for definheld that holding a child’s ing sexual assault in court. hands and unzipping pants do Since the victim of the case not fall under the defiwas below 12 years, The judge’s nition of sexual asthe sessions court sault under the Pro- intrepretation said the act was ‘agtection of Children of POCSO Act gravated sexual asfrom Sexual Offences sault’ punishable unJustice (POCSO) Act, 2012. der Section 10 of Ganediwala’s A single judge POCSO. The perpeorder notes the b e n ch o f Justic e trator was sentenced definition of Pushpa Ganediwala to five years in pris‘sexual assault’ of the Nagpur bench under POCSO Act on and the judge imof the Bombay HC de- says there has to p o s e d a f i n e o f livered this judgment `25,000 with a default be ‘physical on January 15 while simple imprisoncontact with hearing a criminal ment for 6 months. sexual intent appeal filed against The complaint was without the conviction and filed by the child’s penetration’ sentence gave to a 50mother, who said she year-old man for molesting a saw the accused, Libnus Kujur, five-year-old girl. with his pants unzipped and Days later, another order holding her daughter’s hands. from the same judge that interThe mother also said the acpreted sexual assault provi- cused removed his penis from sions under POCSO Act as his pants and asked her to only skin-to-skin contact with come to bed to sleep. S U D H I R S U R YA W A N S H I & K A N U S A R D A @ Mumbai / New Delhi review the law and order situation in the capital. Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Thursday said that two brass finials on top of the minar were found missing after chaos ensued in the Red Fort complex but were later found in a damaged state. The case was transferred to Delhi police’s special cell to investigate “international angle” in the ensuing violence at Red Fort. Police has meanwhile invoked a criminal case under provisions of Unlawful Activities (prevention) Act (UAPA) and Sedition charges in the violence took place at Red Fort. Besides the LOCs, Delhi Police has issued notice to 20 other farmer unions leaders in- Opposition is boycotting the Presidential address. Last year, they had assembled in front of A day before the start of the the Ambedkar statue on the budget session of Parliament, campus and read the preamble over a dozen Opposition par- of the Constitution to register ties decided to boycott the cus- their opposition to the Citizentomary President’s address to ship Amendment Act. a joint sitting of both the HousThe other parties that are es on Friday as a mark of soli- signatories to the joint statedarity with the farmers pro- ment are NCP, Shiv Sena, testing against the AITC, DMK, JKNC, All-party new farm laws. SP RJD, CPI(M), CPI, , meet on Sat IUML, RSP, PDP, While 16 Opposition parties issued a While Lok Sabha MDMK, Kerala Conjoint statement an- Speaker Om Birla gress and AIUDF. nouncing the boycott “The prime miniswill meet floor and demanding a ter and the BJP govleaders of all probe into the Cenernment remain arparties after the tre’s role in the viorogant, adamant and House is lence on Republic undemocratic in adjourned on Day in Delhi, the their response... The Friday, Prime Aam Aadmi Party Minister Narendra three farm laws are and the Shiromani Modi will convene an assault on the Akali Dal, a former rights of the states an all-party NDA ally too, decided , and violate the fedmeeting on to skip the Presideneral spirit of the ConSaturday tial address. stitution. If not reAs for the treasury pealed, these laws benches, the BJP has issued will effectively dismantle the whip to members, asking them edifice of national food secuto stay put in the Capital. rity that rests upon minimum “We are issuing a statement support price, government from 16 political parties that procurement and the public we are boycotting President’s distribution system,” the joint address,” announced Ghulam statement read. “We believe Nabi Azad, Leader of Opposi- the government has miserably tion in Rajya Sabha. This is the failed in handling the agitasecond time in a row that the tion,” Azad said. EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Lookout notices against accused farmers, passports to be seized; UP govt orders farmers to vacate Ghazipur protest site within 24 hrs @ New Delhi Security personnel conducting a flag march at Ghazipur on the Uttar Pradesh-Delhi border during the ongoing farmers’ protest the Centre on Thursday | PTI FIRS AGAINST THAROOR, SARDESAI, VINOD JOSE Noida Police have registered an FIR against 8 people including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pandey and Zafar Agha for allegedly stoking violence on Republic Day through social media by claiming that police bullets felled a tractor driver cluding Yo g endra Yadav, Rakesh Tikait, Balbir Singh Rajewal Surjeet Singh Phool, Gurnam Singh Chaduni and others in connection with the violence that took place on Republic Day in the national capital. According to a senior police officer, notice has been issued to all the farmer union leaders who attended the meeting with the Delhi Police, agreed to all the 36 conditions and signed the undertaking to conduct the P7 rally on Republic Day . EXPRESS READ Telangana to soon get logistics policy Hyderabad: MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao said the TS government will come out with a logistics policy soon, which would boost employment generation and revenue earnings of the State. A draft policy has been prepared and it will be placed before the State Cabinet for approval, he said | P3 Make Mumbai UT, says K’taka Dy CM Belagavi: In a tit-for-tat response to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray’s provocative statements on the boundary dispute, Karnataka Deputy CM Laxman Savadi has demanded that the country’s financial capital, Mumbai, be made a Union Territory “until it is merged with Karnataka” | P5 PROMISE LONG DUE UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IN TS MAY SOON GET DOLE INTER EXAM SCHEDULE RELEASED First year exams to be held from May 1 to 19, second year exams from May 2 to 20, according to timetable released by Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy PAGE 4 INNOCENCE IN FULL BLOOM Kids play at the All India Horticulture, Agriculture and Nursery Expo at Necklace Road in Hyderabad on Thursday | ROSHAN | P3 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Hyderabad IN what should be music to the ears of the jobless, TRS working president and MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao on Thursday said Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to announce an unemployment allowance in the next few days. “The Chief Minister, in a day or two, may make an announcement on the quantum of unemployment dole,” Rama Rao said. The unemployed youth in Telangana have long been waiting for this one promise to be fulfilled. Back in December, 2018, a couple of days ahead of wrapping up his campaign for the Assembly elections, the Chief Minister had announced that he would provide an unemployment allowance to the youth after retaining power. He said this while releasing the TRS manifesto during a public meeting at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds. As there has been a delay, the TRS gover nment has come under attack from the Opposition time and again. Students, too, had turned restive and began making loud demands for its announcement. Rama Rao, while spilling the beans on the unemployment dole at a meeting of the R R A J A S H E K A R R A O @ Hyderabad Amid speculations of his coronation as the next Chief Minister, TRS working president KT Rama Rao refuses to wear a crown-like turban being offered by a TRVKS member at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad on Thursday | VINAY MADAPU Telangana Rashtra Vidyuth Karmika Sangahm (TRVKS) on Thursday said the govern, ment would soon release a notification for the recruitment to 50,0000 posts in the State gover nment, as announced earlier. He said Rao will bestow more than what the youth had expected from him. He also promised to bring the problems of the power utilities’ employees to the notice of the Chief Minister for early resolution. KTR takes Oppn to task Rama Rao said had KCR not secured Telangana State, there would have been no TPCC or Telangana BJP The . leaders of these two parties would have been without any moorings anywhere in Telangana, had the separate State not been carved out. “The leaders, who are occupying the posts of presidents of the TPCC and the Telangana BJP , are, in fact, created by KCR,” he said. The Chief Minster, as promised, had addressed the three major issues of Telangana — drinking water, irrigation and power — in just six years, the MAUD Minister said. “There used to be dharnas for water and power when Telangana was part of Andhra Pradesh. There used to be power holidays for industries. But these are no longer issues,” he said. There used to be dharnas for water and power when Telangana was part of Andhra Pradesh. There used to be power holidays for industries. But these are no longer issues – KT Rama Rao, MAUD Min SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS Dirty waters draining into Hussainsagar continue to raise a stink V N I L E S H @ Hyderabad EVEN after spending crores over the past few years on trying to divert sewage of various drains from discharging into the Hussainsagar, the Telangana gover nment has remained unsuccessful. The Kukatpally nala (drain), responsible for 75 per cent of all the waste flowing into the Hussainsagar, continues to drain 30-40 per cent of its untreated sewage into the lake, according to a report submitted in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday by a Joint Committee of experts. The NGT had constituted the committee last year to look into various aspects concerning the pollution and protection of the Hussainsagar, in a petition filed by lake protection activist Lubna Sarwath. This is the second such report by the committee. Missing girls: HC gives TS 2 weeks to form welfare panels The committee noted that untreated sewage from the Banjara, Yousufguda and Balkapur nalas gets discharged into the lake during peak hours (7 am-12 pm) and the monsoon. It reported that untreated sewage has been mixing with treat- ed waste from the Picket nala’s sewage treatment plant (STP). During an inspection, the Balkapur nala STP was found to be non-functional, thereby causing the untreated sewage to flow into the Hussainsagar. The committee also noted that even though the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) officials had informed them at a meeting in March, 2020, that the lake’s surplus weir — which was damaged by the government — would be repaired after the monsoon, nothing was done to this effect when the committee had checked in DeCONTINUED ON P3 cember. EXPRESSING concern over the future of thousands of missing children, the Telangana High Court on Thursday granted the State government two weeks to constitute child welfare committees in all the 33 districts. It also told the government to appoint members to the committees and file a compliance report before the court. “Why is the Telangana government not doing the needful? Why is it exhibiting such laxity in implementing court orders? The government should know that it is dealing with girl children, who are the most susceptible and do not have a voice against their perpetrators who force them into prostitution. Unless the highest-level police officer monitors this issue, justice cannot be delivered to the missing children,” a division bench observed. Impleading the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare as a co-respondent in the case, the bench directed it to take concrete steps on the issue. It also felt the need to give top priority to the usage of information technology (IT) in the case, and directed the authorities concerned to use IT for tracing missing girls. The bench told them to use facial recognition software in order to reunite the children with their parents. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy passed these , orders in a batch of petitions which sought directions to the government to appoint a special police wing to reopen the cases of missing children across the State. The PIL, filed by Prajwala, an NGO represented by its general secretary Sunitha Krishnan, submitted that child welfare committees exist only in the 10 old districts. CONTINUED ON P5