Vol. 34 No. 21 | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 | 18 Pages | ` 5 Nav Durga, Navras bhog THE FP BULLETIN India beat England in Jhulan’s farewell I ndia defeated England by 16 runs in Jhulan Goswami’s final international appearance, at the Lord’s Cricket Stadium. Chasing 170, England slumped to 103 for 8. However, captain Amy Jones and Charlie Dean put on a rearguard action to frustrate India. Jones was dismissed on 28 by Renuka, who was the pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets to her name. U’khand murder: Factory set ablaze O utrage in Rishikesh grew over the killing of Ankita Bhandari with people setting a factory of the main accused, Pulkit Arya, on fire Saturday. Pulkit is the son of former minister Vinod Arya, who has been expelled by the BJP along with NATION his other son, Ankit. CBI gets custody of Mumbai ex-top cop T he CBI arrested former Mumbai police chief Sanjay Pandey in relation to NSE colocation and phone tapping case. He was, earlier, arrested by the ED and was in judicial custody in a money laundering case. A judge sent Pandey to CBI custody till Sep 28. CITY National Cinema Day: 6.5 mn viewers A round 6.5 million people went to theatres on National Cinema Day, which was celebrated on Friday to commemorate the reopening of movie halls, the Multiplex Association of India said. Over 4,000 screens participated in NATION the initiative. There are specific bhogs that are offered to Goddess Shakti on each day during Navratri Reg. No. MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 46955/1988 M.p.c.s. office Mumbai-400001 EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Nashik, Konkan, Indore, Bhopal, E-paper Amp up your vacay list From sky dining to homestays that allow you to experience tribal life, unique places are a must-visit Vegetarian delights CBI cracks down Mhatre back by Uddhav’s side on purveyors of child sex abuse DHARMESH THAKKAR Mumbai SOMENDRA SHARMA Mumbai The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday launched Operation Megh Chakra and carried out searches at 59 locations across 21 states and a Union Territory in an internationally coordinated law-enforcement crackdown on online circulation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with officers saying more than 50 suspects are being investigated. The CBI registered two cases under provisions of the Information Technology Act based on information received from Crime Against Children (CAC), a unit of Interpol, Singapore, which had received it from the New Zealand police for sharing with the relevant country . A number of Indian citizens are believed to be involved in circulating/downloading/tran smitting CSAM using cloudbased storage (and hence the name Megh Chakra). The information received by Interpol M from law enforcers in New Zealand was analysed and developed by the CBI, and the suspects were identified to locate and disrupt further distribution. “Saturday’s crackdown was a follow-up of a massive operation (Operation Carbon) carried out by CBI last year against online CSAM,” an officer said. “During searches electronic devices, including mobiles and laptops belonging to more than 50 suspects, have been recovered. Preliminary scrutiny of these electronic devices using cyber forensic tools has revealed the presence of a huge quantity of CSAM. The suspects are being questioned about it to identify the victims and the abusers." Operation Megh Chakra is one of the CBI-led global operations in recent times for rapid response to online child sexual exploitation cases with international linkages and victims, suspects, conspirators across the world, requiring a globally coordinated law-enforcement response.CONTD. ON NATION PAGE `90 CRORE BOOST FOR ‘ONE STATE, ONE E-CHALLAN’ aharashtra govt has approved Rs90 crore to implement its ‘one state, one e-challan’ project. A high-powered committee set up to implement the scheme communicated its monetary need for operations and maintenance. The ‘one state, one e-challan’ proposal was introduced in 2018 to collect fines from violators and was to be rolled out that year in a phased manner in five police commissionerates. FULL REPORT ON CITY Milind Narvekar has been replaced as former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s right-hand man by old faithful Ravindra Mhatre. Narvekar, erstwhile confidant of the family has been missing , from Thackeray’s side as the Sena faces its biggest challenge in a decade. Narvekar is no stranger to controversy Several party stal. India slams Pakistani PM’s remarks at UN NEW YORK: In a strong response to Pakistan, India has said in the UN General Assembly that a country that claims to seek peace would never sponsor terror, nor shelter terrorists. India exercised the right of reply in the UN General Assembly on Friday to respond to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who had brought up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir during his address to the General Debate earlier in the day . “A polity that claims it seeks peace with its neighbours would never sponsor cross-border terrorism, nor would it shelter planners of the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, disclosing their existence only under pressure from the international community the first secre,” tary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Mijito Vinito, said. FULL STORY ON WORLD warts such as former Chief Minister Narayan Rane, Uddhav’s cousin Raj Thackeray and three-time MP Mohan Rawale had all blamed him while leaving the Sena for creating a rift between them and party founder Bal Thackeray and his heir Uddhav. Narvekar was also forced to demolish his 2,000 square foot sea-facing bungalow on a plot of about 1.8 acre at the DapoliMurud seashore in Ratnagiri district in Aug 2022 to escape ac- Erstwhile aide Milind Narvekar is currently out in the cold tion by the authorities since the bungalow was erected in violation of Coastal Regulation Zone norms. The move by the Sena leader was considered an attempt to save the Thackerays from further embarrassment. Mhatre had fallen out of favour with the Thackerays after killing an elderly woman and her daughter at a bus stop on the Western Express Highway on Holi day in Mar 2005 in a case of drunken driving. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE or the Congress high command tells me something, I have to do it,” he said. Sources say Gehlot’s statement is also aimed at ending the impression that Shashi Tharoor has Sonia’s blessings. The MP called on the her before announcing his intention to run. On Saturday he became the first person to officially enter the race, sending a representative to the AICC headquarters to collect the nomination form. FULL REPORT P7 NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that members of the Popular Front of India had collected funds to the tune of Rs120 crore to carry out attacks on important personalities. ED sources said the PFI planned to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in July 2020. It did not, however, execute the plan. PFI member Shafeequr Payeth, arrested from Kerala, was produced in a special court in Lucknow on Friday The attack . plan was mentioned in the remand paper. –IANS ‘If high command tells me, I have to do it’ CONGRESS ELECTION JAL KHAMBATA New Delhi Ashok Gehlot has presented himself as the official candidate despite Sonia and Rahul Gandhi’s assertions that they will not endorse anyone for Congress president. Following a visit to Shirdi on Friday evening, the Rajasthan chief minister said that if the party tells him something, “I have to do it”. “I have got everything from the party over the past 40 years. If Sonia Gandhi GUJARAT’S FINANCES SINKING… PFI PLANNED HIT ON MODI IN 2020: ED Places where you can savour vegetarian and Navratri delicacies in Mumbai Govt litigation clogging the judicial system, says ex-CJI HYDERABAD: Former Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday termed the government the ‘biggest litigator’ and said half the judiciary’s problems would be resolved the day it decided to halt state-sponsored litigation. Speaking at the Indian School of Business (ISB) Leadership Summit 2022 here, Mr Ramana said the state of judicial infrastructure in the country even after 75 years of independence is ‘disturbing’ and a nationwide study he had commissioned revealed certain hard truths about its poor state. “During the chief ministers’ and chief justices’ conference last April, I had the occasion to highlight my understanding of these problems. As I said in the presence of the Prime Minister, one of the major concerns is that the government is the biggest litigator," he said. BUT POLITICAL PARTIES CONTINUE TO PROMISE FREEBIES DARSHAN DESAI / Ahmedabad While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress are busy promising more freebies and the ruling BJP is succumbing to demands from various state employee associations on the path of agitation, few care to look at the legacy of astronomical public debt already created by the state government. The latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG), which was released on Mar 31, states that the public debt of the Gujarat government stood at Rs3,08,000 crore as of Mar 31, 2021, almost 50% more than the state’s annual budget of Rs2,40,000 crore for 2022-23. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE