HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY MAY 15, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 16 LATE CITY EDITION ACTIVIST GAUTAM NAVLAKHA GETS BAIL IN ELGAR PARISHAD CASE The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the stay on the bail granted by the Bombay High Court in December 2023, in view of the lengthy trial FOUR YEARS ON, CHARGES YET TO BE FRAMED IN HOUSE ARREST SINCE NOVEMBER 2023 The HC had stayed the bail for three weeks to allow the NIA to appeal. The SC bench of justices M M Sundresh and S V N Bhatti refused to extend the stay. “The appellant has been in incarceration for more than four years and charges are yet to be framed. The trial would take years and years and years for completion. Thus, we are not inclined to extend the stay,” it said ■ Navlakha, who was arrested in August 2018, has been placed under house arrest since November 2023. He is currently residing in Navi Mumbai ■ The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claim triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial `20 lakh AMOUNT TO BE PAID BY NAVLAKHA TOWARDS SECURITY DURING HIS HOUSE ARREST 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 I see Cong victory in 13 seats: Revanth PM files papers amid show of NDA strength B K A R T H E E K @ Hyderabad EXUDING confidence that the Congress will win 13 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday said that there will be an increase in the ruling party’s vote share. He, however, said that the party may be limited to nine seats if the “BRS conspiracies” worked out. The chief minister reviewed the voting trends based on the survey reports and feedback from party functionaries. “We don’t know what BRS has done in the DAMAGE CONTROL Day after, AAP admits assault on Swati Maliwal A N U P V E R M A @ New Delhi A day after Aam Aadmi Party leader Swati Maliwal accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s private secretary Bibhav Kumar of misbehaving with her, the party sought to limit the damage by admitting the crime, adding ster n action would be taken against the accused. Swati Maliwal is AAP’s Rajya Sabha member and former head of the Delhi Commission for Women. She was assaulted at the chief minister’s residence on Monday. Maliwal alerted the police but did not file a formal complaint. The party took more than 30 hours to react to the controversy that came bang in the middle of the general elections. “Yesterday (Monday) morning, Maliwal went to Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to meet him. While she was waiting in the drawing room, Bibhav Kumar came there and misbehaved with Swati Maliwal. She had reported the incident to the police by calling on the number 112. We dee ply condemn this incident. Kejriwal has taken cognisance of the incident and called for strict action,” said party leader Sanjay Singh. Maliwal, Singh said, is one of the oldest and senior-most AAP leaders. “We are all standing with her. The chief minister has taken this issue seriously and strict action will follow. I want to make it clear that the AAP does not support such people,” he added. As per the police log, a PCR call from Maliwal came in at 9.34 am on Monday, alleging that she had been assaulted by one of the CM’s staff. “As per information, the lady is saying that she is at the CM’s house and has been assaulted by CM’s PA Bibhav Kumar,” a note on the PCR call read. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva lit into the AAP’s silence on the incident on Monday saying , it reflected the mentality of the party . election. It becomes a little difficult to assess the election without knowing what they (BRS) have done. But BRS candidates will lose their security deposits in six seats,” Revanth told reporters during an infor mal interaction at his residence. Stating that the BRS made the saffron party a viable political force in the state, he said that the pink party’s approach of “zero opposition” paved the way for the rise of the BJP in Telangana. Revanth reiterated that the BJP was likely to get 220 seats across India, with the margin of error in his assessment being 10%. Earlier in the day, the TPCC chief ’s office indicated that the Congress would win in Nalgonda, Bhongir, Khammam, Warangal, Mahabubabad, Peddapalli, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool, Medak, Zaheerabad, Chevella We don’t know what BRS has done in the election. It’s difficult to assess without knowing what they have done. But BRS will lose security deposits in 6 seats — A Revanth Reddy, Chief Minister BJP sure Modi magic will help it win nine segments M A N DA RAV I N D E R R E D DY @ Hyderabad THE BJP, which set itself a target of winning at least 10 seats in Telangana, believes that it may emerge victorious in nine constituencies. A day after votes were cast for the Lok Sabha elections in the state, the BJP leadership conducted an informal review of the party’s performance by analysing information collected through booth committees and Shakti Kendras. Sources said that by assessing the polling trend, the leadership concluded that the BJP was likely to win nine of the 17 seats in Telangana. Sources said that the BJP state leadership is expecting victories in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Chevella, Malkajgiri, Mahbubnagar, Secunderabad and Zaheerabad. In Bhongir, it’s expecting victory despite a neck-and-neck contest with the Congress, sources said. Interestingly, the BJP leadership is not confident of victory in any of the three SC reserved constituencies in the state. The BJP leadership is of the view that “Modi magic” worked in Telangana. The party believes that “silent voting” took place in its favour in most of the constituencies. The BJP also believes that it successfully consolidated Hindu votes in constituencies with a higher Muslim population. It is also confident that rural women voters voted in its favour. The party leadership also believes that its vote share increased in constituencies where it has no chance of vicCONTINUED ON P4 tory . and Secunderabad constituencies. New ration cards soon Stating that the state government will soon start accepting applications for new ration cards, the chief minister said that his administration will procure agricultural produce directly from farmers and supply it to holders of ration cards at subsidised prices. Stating that the time for politics has ended, Revanth said that accepting applications for ration cards, which was stopped during the BRS regime, would be a continuous process. CONTINUED ON P5 Ex-Indian Army officer with UN killed in Gaza PEP TALK FOR CADRE Y E S H I S E L I @ New Delhi COLONEL Waibhav Anil Kale, a former Indian Army officer who had joined a UN agency in Gaza barely two months ago, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in came under attack in war-torn Rafah in Gaza, becoming the first ‘international casualty’ for the world body since the Israel-Hamas conflicted started. Kale, 46, is survived by his wife and two teenage children. After taking premature retirement from the Indian Army in 2022, he joined the UN as a security coordination officer in the United Nations Department of Safety and Security recently His family is settled in Pune. . Kale was going to the European Hospital in Rafah along with another DSS staffer on Monday when their vehicle was struck, officials said. The other person was seriously injured in the attack. The UN has called for a full investigation. “The Secretary General is deeply saddened by the loss of Col Kal,. Our deepest condolences are with the family Antonio ,” Guterres’s office said in a statement. EXPRESS READ Kavitha judicial custody extended till May 20 A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of BRS leader K Kavitha, who has been arrested in a money laundering case related to alleged excise policy scam also involving Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, till May 20 | P4 INSIDE OVER 2 CRORE TRAVEL IN RTC BUSES I P2 CASTE LOOMS OVER TEMPLE IN AYODHYA I P5 5 month-old mauled to death by dog in Tandur Available on Scan the QR code for further details *Basis lab test in controlled environment on protein damaged hair after five washes E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Hyderabad IN a shocking incident, a five-month-old baby was mauled to death by a dog at Tandur in Vikarabad district on Tuesday morning. The gory incident took place when the boy identified as , Sainath, was asleep in the house while his mother stepped out to buy some essential items. The dog entered the house and attacked Sainath. The boy died on the spot due to the grievous injuries. Shortly after, Sainath’s mother Lavanya returned and saw the dog near the house. She went inside and found her son bleeding profusely Sainath was rushed to the mother-child care . centre of the district hospital where the doctors pronounced him “brought dead”. Based on a complaint by the parents, Karankote police registered a case. According to the police, Sainath’s parents, Dattu and Lavanya are residents of Mahbubnagar district and work CONTINUED ON P5 in a polishing unit near Gautapur. Modi waves after filing his papers for the LS elections in Varanasi on Tuesday | PTI Modi concluded his two-day visit to Kashi by addressing a gathering of party workers and exuded confidence about the NDA victory in the polls. He urged party workers to maintain the momentum till the last phase of voting on June 1 N A M I TA B A J PA I @ Lucknow SEEKING a third term as member of Parliament from Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday filed his nomination papers amid great fanfare and symbolism in the presence of a whole array of NDA allies, chief ministers and Union ministers. Before filing his papers during the auspicious Pushya Nakshatra on the day of Ganga Saptami (River Ganga is believed to have flown down to earth on this day), Modi offered prayers to the holy river at Dashashwamedh Ghat under the guidance of K Venkat Raman Ghanapathy, a member of Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust, along with three priests from Tamil Nadu and one each from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. He paid obeisance at the Kashi Kotwal Kaal Bhairav temple before proceeding to the collectorate to file his papers amid chants of Har Har Mahadev. At the district magistrate’s office, four persons — Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid, Baijnath Patel, Lalchand Kushwaha and Sanjay Sonkar — representing different sections of the society, proposed Modi’s name for nomination from the constituency . Dravid is the high priest who had determined the auspicious time for the consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya and had supervised the rituals. Baijnath Patel is a party worker since the days of Jan Sangh. Lalchand Kushwaha represents the OBC community and Sanjay Sonkar is a Dalit. Prominent among the dignitaries present included BJP’s national president J P Nadda, ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Ramdas Athawale; chief ministers Yogi Adityanath, Eknath Shinde, and Conrad Sangma; former Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu and NCP leader Praful Patel.
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