May consider granting interim bail to Kejri: SC The Supreme Court on Friday indicated that it may grant interim bail to AAP leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in view of Lok Sabha polls. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta told Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for ED, that the hearing on Kejriwal’s plea against arrest is likely to take time and therefore, the court was considering hearing arguments on interim bail on May 7. tirupati l saturday l may 04, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 14 l late city EDITION CHENNAI MADURAI VIJAYAWADA BENGALURU KOCHI HYDERABAD VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Just 1 more month, CM tells pensioners E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Crowd cheering for Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy during his public meeting at Narasapuram on Friday | Express Closure report on Vemula puts T’gana in a spot Court nod to be sought to reopen case after closure report said he was not a Dalit: DGP “The deceased himself was @ Hyderabad aware that he does not belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) ... This Hours after a police closure could be one of the constant report in the Rohith Vemula fears as the exposure of the suicide case filed in the Telan- same would put him to loss of gana High Court on Friday his academic degrees that he claimed he was not a Dalit, the earned over the years and be Telangana police tried to con- compelled to face prosecutrol the damage by announc- tion,” the report said. ing it wanted to reoSeveral individupen the probe. als were accused in DGP Ravi Gupta the case, including said the police will the then Union file a petition in the HRD Minister Smcourt concer ned riti Irani and the seeking permission then vice-chancelfor further lor P Appa Rao. investigation. The closure reEarlier in the day , port was first filed the Gachibowli po- Vemula’s mother in March before the lice filed a closure questions probe jurisdictional court, report before the “As some doubts have four months after high court citing been expressed by the the Congress came lack of evidence in mother and others of to power in the state the 2016 suicide of in December 2023. the deceased Rohit the University of After Rohith died Vemula... a petition Hyderabad PhD by suicide, Conwill be filed in the scholar. It went on gress leader Rahul court concerned...to to state that he did Gandhi too had vispermit further not belong to a investigation into the ited the university Scheduled Caste hostel, when the case,” the DGP said community. The students protests High Court then disposed of were at the peak. In 2023, in a petitions related to the case. resolution passed at its 85th More than eight years after plenary session, the Congress Ro h i t h ’s s u i c i d e, wh i ch said it would bring in a legislasparked widespread protests tion called the ‘Rohith Vemula across the nation, the police, in Act’ to redress discrimination their closure report stated that faced by SC, ST, OBC and mithe reasons for suicide are per- nority students in educational sonal and no one abetted it. institutions. E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e Blaming the TDP for the hardships being faced by the elderly in getting their pensions, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday asked the beneficiaries to bear with the problem caused by Naidu, for a month. He said after assuming power on June 4, he will put his first signature on the file relating to the reinstating of volunteer system. “After June, the volunteers will commence door-to-door distribution of pensions,” he said during his election campaign in Narasapuram. Jagan was speaking during election rallies at Narasapuram in West Godavari, Pedakurapadu in Palnadu and Kanigiri in Prakasam districts. Elaborating on his government’s initiatives, he said, “Volunteers were deployed for every 60-70 households. Pensions, Volunteers were deployed for every 60-70 households. Pensions,civil services and schemes were delivered at the beneficiaries’ doorsteps without corruption & discrimination — YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Naidu predicts YSRC will lose deposits in elections E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Terming Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy a psycho, destructor and dacoit, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu felt that the YSRC will lose its deposits in the elections. Exuding confidence, Naidu said the TDP-BJP-JSP combine will definitely win 24 of the 25 Lok Sabha and more that 160 of the 175 Assembly seats. “We could win the remaining one Parliamentary segment also,” he added. Addressing the people along with Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan after conducting a roadshow in Nellore on Friday, the former chief minister said the ensuing elections are a fight between dharma and adharma, destruction and development. TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu & JSP chief Pawan Kalyan during a roadshow in Nellore on Friday | Express “These elections are a battle between the dacoit that Jagan is and five crore people of the State,” Naidu remarked. Reiterating that the three parties had come together for the betterment of the State, he said, “We should bid adieu to the stone era and welcome the golden age after the elections. It is our responsibility to give you (people) a bright future.” Alleging that the YSRC will resort to doing politics with money and conspiracies, the TDP chief accused Jagan of Fresh trouble for Revanna, cops file FIR on kidnap plaint e x p r e s s ne w s s e r v i c e @ Mysuru IN fresh trouble for Hassan NDA candidate Prajwal Revanna and his father H D Revanna, police on Friday filed a fresh FIR against H D Revanna based on a complaint filed in Mysuru. The father-son duo is facing criminal charges for sexually assaulting several women. The latest complaint was filed by the son of a victim. The complainant alleged that his mother, who had worked as a domestic help at H D Revanna’s house and farm house for six years, was kidnapped by the politician and his aide Sathish Babanna. He said Sathish Babanna visited his house on April 26, saying Revanna’s wife Bhavani had invited his mother to her house. His mother was then taken to Revanna’s house and sent back. However, on April 29, Babanna visited again saying Revanna had asked for his mother. She was then allegedly forcibly taken on a bike. On May 1, some villagers told the son about a video of alleged sexual abuse of his mother by Prajwal. Disturbed by this, he immediately contacted Babanna and asked him to bring his mother back. However, Babanna claimed the woman was involved in a case and she could not be sent back till she secured bail. Domestic help’s son files plaint Complainant alleged that his mother was kidnapped by Revanna & his aide Sathish Babanna Amethi ticket to little-known Congress man Kishori Lal N a m i ta B a j pa i @ Lucknow Ending weeks of speculation, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers for the general elections from his family’s bastion Rae Bareli in the presence of his mother and former Rae Bareli MP Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday . This newspaper was the first to report on the buzz about Rahul entering the fray from Rae Bareli (April 30 edition). With Rahul opting for Rae Bareli, the party gave the Amethi ticket to family faithful Kishori Lal Sharma, 63. Little is known about him except that he is a low profile operative and an errand boy of the Gan- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi files his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections in Rae Bareli on Friday, as mother Sonia and sister Priyanka look on | PTI dhi family in Rae Bareli. He, too, filed his papers. Priyanka recalled her family’s long association with Shar- civil services, and schemes were delivered at the doorsteps of the beneficiaries. There was no need for beneficiaries to grease the palms of the staff or face discrimination.” “We have directly deposited `2.70 lakh crore into the bank accounts of beneficiaries for various schemes,” said Jagan. On TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu’s unkept promises made in his 2014 manifesto, ma, adding, “he has been handling Amethi for a long time. When I had managed election for the first time in 1999, we had done it together. He knows every village and street of Amethi.” Rahul said, “I am happy that Kishori Lalji, who has been serving in the area for the last 40 years, will represent Amethi this time.” Apparently Rahul opted out , of Amethi because he did not want the polls to be framed as a rematch between him and the BJP’s feisty Smriti Irani, who had defeated him in 2019. But by fielding the foot-soldier, the party appears to have thrown in the towel. When the SP allotted Amethi and Rae Bareli to the Congress, the understanding was the Gandhi siblings would enter the fray from there. Sonia had represented Rae Bareli in the Lok Sabha since 2004 before she vacated it. Both seats are family: rahul “My mother has handed over the karma bhoomi of our family with great trust giving me an opportunity to serve it. Amethi and Rae Bareli are not different for me. Both are my family,” Rahul Gandhi said. looting the people through sand, wine, mine and land mafias and disbursing the same under various welfare schemes. Fur ther, he once ag ain charged the Chief Minister with conspiring to grab lands through the AP Land Titling Act. He said, “My first sign after taking charge as Chief Minister will be to conduct a Mega DSC and the second signature will be to revoke the Land Titling Act.” Stating that there will be passbook for the lands and all records will be kept online as per the Land Titling Act, Naidu claimed that land owners will be forced to seek Jagan’s permission to carry out any transaction for their land. He alleged that there will be no guarantee P4 for people’s lands. Jagan said Naidu had sent the manifesto copy to each household and now it is for the people to decide whether the promises were implemented or not. Jagan pointed out, “He (Naidu) promised that his first signature will be on waiver of farm loans worth `87,612 crore, but that didn’t happen. He also promised loan waiver for SHGs for about `14,205 crore, depositing `25,000 under the Mahalakshmi scheme after a girl child is born in a family. He failed to fulfil any of his promP4 ises.” Express read Plea on cancelling bail to Avinash dismissed Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Friday dismissed a petition that sought to cancel the anticipatory bail granted to Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy, an accused in the YS Vivekananda Reddy murder case. The petition was filed by Shaik Dastagiri, an accused-turned-approver in the case | P6 Severe heatwave likely in 58 mandals today Visakhapatnam: As many as 58 mandals are likely to experience severe heatwave conditions on Saturday, while 169 mandals may record heatwave conditions, as per the forecast by the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority. On Friday, Nandyala logged the maximum temperature at 46.30 Celsius | P2
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