FREE PRESS - VOL. XXXIX NO. 112 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 | PAGES 16 FRESH CRACKDOWN ON PFI: 200+ held in seven states WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN More than 200 people allegedly linked with the Popular Front of India (PFI) were detained or arrested in raids across seven states on Tuesday five days after a , similar pan India crackdown against the group often accused of being linked to radical Islam. Conducted mostly by state police teams, the raids were spread Uttar across Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra, Assam Madhya and Pradesh. As police teams fanned out across their respective , states on Tuesday seemingly synchronised, the action was swift. While 25 people each were arrested in Assam and Maharashtra, 57 were detained in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. The count of those detained in Delhi was 30, 10 in Gujarat and six in Pune in Maharashtra. Besides, several people were also arrested in Karnataka. CONTD. ON P6 OUR STAFF REPORTER Bhopal/Indore US repeats praise for PM’s comment on Ukraine U News Brief Bombay CJ Datta elevated to SC The Supreme Court Collegium recommended the elevation of Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta (57) as a judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Datta originally comes from the Calcutta High Court, and elevated to the Bombay High Court on April 28, 2020. Xi Jinping appears in public Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday visited an exhibition of the Communist Party, appearing in public for the first time after his return from the SCO summit on September 16, which sparked rumours about his absence from the limelight ahead of next month's key Congress of the ruling party. Hurricane Ian strikes Cuba Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba on Tuesday as a major hurricane, with nothing to stop it from intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 storm before it hits Florida, where officials ordered 2.5 million people to evacuate before it crashes ashore Wednesday. EC to decide on real Shiv Sena The Supreme Court on uesday gave a rude shock to T former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's group, rejecting its plea to stop the Election Commission from deciding Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's claim as the real Shiv Sena. EDIT S Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday cited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that “this is not the era for war” and said, “We couldn’t agree more". had Modi made the comment during a recent meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Blinken was meeting External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is visiting the US for bilateral consultations. Briefing the media after the meeting, Jaishankar said the talks were on political coordination and assessment of regional and global challenges. Earlier, Jaishankar held talks with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon. The building from where PFI members were arrested in a multi-agency operation led by the NIA for allegedly supporting terror . activities in the country In raids conducted in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday four ac, tivists of PFI were arrested OUR BUREAU New Delhi The Supreme Court has sought response to a petition by NGO Common Cause to restrain the state governments from publishing advertisements outside their territory . A Bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli issued the notices to the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry and all the states. Initially, it showed disinclination to entertain the petition, but after a brief deliberation agreed to seek the response as first it asked: "How can we prohibit a state government from publishing advertisements outside its territory if it wants to attract investments by showcasing the work to the public of other states, saying it is creating the infrastructure of road, power, tourism, etc?" Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, submitted that he was objecting to the advertisements that have nothing to attract investments, rather it's a mere projection strategy of great work. CONTD. ON P6 OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Mystery of two ‘missing’ newborn twins of TT Nagar unfolded on Tuesday after the mother of toddlers admitted to have strangled her babies following a financial crisis, the police said on Tuesday . The decomposed bodies of the two 20-day-old boys, who went missing from TT Nagar on September 23, were found in the Habibganj area on Tuesday morning, the police said. Assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Virendra Mishra told media that during the intense search of Habibganj police station area, the police had found the bodies of the two missing children. The accused 27-year-old Sapna Dhakad had strangulated her two sons to death and then dumped the bodies in the backyard of a building in Habibganj Rebel MLAs change tune, say we are with high command Two days after their open "revolt" created a crisis for the Congress in Rajasthan, several MLAs, who had tendered their resignation on Sunday against the possibility of Sachin Pilot replacing Ashok Gehlot as Chief Minister, were now changing their stand and expressing confidence in the top leadership. They said that they support the high command and have no issues with Pilot as the Chief Minister, while some of them said that they were clueless as to why they were made to sign on paper. Bamanwas MLA Indira Meena said: "I signed on a paper. But I didn't know what it was." She said it will be good if Pilot becomes CM. Talking to the media, she said: "State minister Mahesh Joshi called and said that there is a meeting at the Chief Minister's residence. In the afternoon, I got a call that there is a meeting at (state minister) Shanti Dhariwal's residence. CONTD. ON P6 from Indore, they have been identified as Abdul Sayed, Taoshif Yusif Chipa, Molana and Danish Gori. In Bhopal, the ATS conducted raids at SDPI's (Social Democratic Party of India) office located at Shahjahanabad area and detained Abdul Rauf, a resident of Indore. Persons associated with SDPI are suspected to have been funding PFI, and the ATS claimed to have recovered some documents related to the same. The activists who were arrested from Ujjain include Ajan Nagori, Akib Khan, Ishque Khan and Juber Ahamad. Two persons Shakir Khan and Samiullaha Khan were picked from Shajapur district. CONTD. ON P6 SC notice against state govt advertisements outside its territory MONSTER MOM KILLS HER NEWBORN TWINS RAJASTHAN CONG CRISIS AGENCIES Jaipur 29.10c. 20.20c Show cause notice to 3 Gehlot aides Chief whip Mahesh Joshi, RTDC chairman Dharmendra Rathore and Shanti Dhariwal, who hosted the parallel meeting of MLAs where they passed a resolution on the next Chief Minister have been served a show cause notice by Congress for "an act of grave indiscipline" and has sought a response within 10 days. Game is still not over for Gehlot Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot is expected to be in Delhi on Wednesday to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi and explain to her that he had no role in his supporters raising the flag of rebellion against prospects of his arch rival Sachin Pilot being made the chief minister in his place. He may even file his nomination in the Congress President's election unless any indication comes from the party leadership to field someone else as the official candidate to sabotage his prospects. After killing her sons, the woman had approached police and filed missing complaint 27-year-old woman had strangulated here newborn boys over financial issues Bodies of toddlers found dumped in backyard of a bldg in Habibganj area area. TT Nagar Chain Singh Raghuwanshi said that after recovering the bodies, the police took the statement of the woman where she confessed to have killed her two sons. The woman in her statement said, “First I have strangled them and then Sunrise : 06.16 Sunset : 06.20 THE GAME CHANGER Pg-16 PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN DEMOLITION 21 MEMBERS NABBED FROM 8 DISTRICTS OF MP, SAYS HM Madhya Pradesh ATS and NIA in a joint operation arrested 21 activists of Popular Front of India (PFI), from eight districts of the state, said home minister Narottam on Mishra Tuesday Four people . each were apprehended from Indore, Ujjain and Neemuch, three from Rajgarh, two each from Shajapur and Sheopur and one each from Bhopal and Guna, the home minister told reporters in Ujjain on . Tuesday These people were detained on the basis of interrogation of the four PFI activists last arrested Thursday from Indore and Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh WEATHER EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE FOR 24X7 UPDATES NEW DELHI `3 QUALITY AT VALUE RNI No. 38281/83 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; Spot where Sapna Dhakad dumped the bodies thrown their bodies in the backyard of the building. The area is full of garbage and bushes and no one can find them. Then I came to TT Nagar and filed a missing complaint of the twins”. The TI added that the police have detained the woman and are waiting for the post-mortem report. After getting it, the police will increase murder sections against the woman. CONTD. ON P6 Sops rain on Ujjain as Lord Mahakal leads Cabinet meet GOVT TO WORK towards resurrecting perennial form of Kshipra FP NEWS SERVICE Ujjain The State Cabinet meeting, which was held for the first time in Ujjain under the chairmanship of Lord Mahakal on Tuesday, presented a bouquet of announcements for the city The Cab. inet gave its in-principle nod for developing the river lakefront to ensure resurrecting the perennial form of the Kshipra. CM Singh Shivraj Chouhan and about 17 of his Cabinet colleagues, besides CS Iqbal Singh Bains, were present at the meeting organised at 'Samrat Vikramaditya Bhavan' for about an hour. Before the start of the proceedings, the CM, CS and others paid their respects before the portrait Mathe of hakaleshwar Jyotirlingam. Later, briefing the media, Cabinet spokesman Narottam Mishra said the Mahakal Corridor would now be known as 'Mahakal Lok' as it symbolized the presence of the entire family of Lord Mahakal. He said that the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government had approved the project of expansion and beautification of the Mahakaleshwar Temple Lord Mahakal at the centre presides over first-ever Cabinet meeting held in Ujjain on Tuesday OTHER DECISIONS The age limit for the 'Mukhya Mantri Udyog Kranti Yojana' will be increased from 40 to 45 years and the education criteria will be reduced from Class 12 to Class 8 23 cluster tap water schemes were sanctioned under the Mukhya Mantri Janjeevan Mission'. Through these schemes, filtered potable water will be supplied to 9,197 villages of 22 districts at a cost of about Rs 17,971 crore. A 50 per cent share each will be borne by the state and central governments and the target will be achieved by 2024 245 new posts will be created for the 'Kutumb Nyayalay' Kamal Nath will not be able to sort out the present crisis of the Congress government in Rajasthan just as he had failed earlier to do so in Maharashtra-or even in MP NAROTTAM MISHRA, HOME MINISTER premises at an expense of Rs 856 crore in 2017. He claimed that tenders for the work were floated in 2018, but the project had been kept on the backburner in 2019 during Ka- More than 72% turnout in local bodies polls Constitution Bench to hear petitions against DeMo BHOPAL: A voter turnout of 72.6 per cent was recorded in the polls to 46 local bodies held across 18 districts of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, an official said. The polling began at 7 am and continued till 5 pm, he said. A total of 72.60 per cent voters exercised their franchise and the polling remained peaceful, the official said. State Election Commission secretary (SEC) Rakesh Singh had said that 3,397 candidates were in the fray for the elections to 46 urban bodies, including 17 municipal councils and 29 nagar parishads. At least 25 corporators have been elected unopposed in these urban bodies, while elections will be held for 814 posts of corporators, he had said. NEW DELHI A five-judge Constitution bench will on Wednesday hear petitions challenging Centre's decision to demonetise currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in November 2016. A bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer, B.R. Gavai, A.S. . Bopanna, V Ramasubra. manian, and B.V Nagarathna, will hear the petitions against demonetisation. This is the fourth Constitution bench which has been constituted in the apex court. In November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, as a measure to curb the circulation of black . money in the economy The bench will also hear a STATE BAGS 8 NATIONAL TOURISM AWARDS AWARD LIST OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Madhya Pradesh has got eight national tourism awards in different categories for 2018-19. Tourism minister Usha Thakur received the awards on the behalf of the state from vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar. The National Tourism Awards 2018-19 was organised by the Union Ministry of Tourism in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on Tuesday to mark World . Tourism Day Centre may extend free foodgrain prog till Dec AGENCIES New Delhi The government is likely to extend its free food grain scheme, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, by three more months till December, a government official familiar with the matter said. The food ministry has sought the extension, and the Union Cabinet will take the final call, which is likely on Wednesday, the official said. There is Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh that are due in Nov-Dec and ending the scheme at this juncture may not bode well, the official said. CONTD. ON P6 INDORE GETS CIVIC MANAGEMENT AWARD. State cultural minister Usha Thakur and Indore Mayor Pushyamitra Bharvav receive award from Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar Thakur said that it is a proud moment for Madhya Pradesh to receive the award. CONTD. ON P6 Q 'Civic Management of a Tourist Destination in India' (Indore) Q 'Swachh Paryatan Sthan -Western Region' Ujjain. Q 'Best Maintained and Disabled Friendly Monument'. Q 'Best Airport-Rest of India' Q 'Excellence in Publishing-Hindi' Q 'Best Tourism Promotion Publicity Material'. Q 'Best Wildlife Guide, Western-Central'. Q 'Incredible India Bed and Breakfast Establishments Approved by State Govt’ Asha Parekh 7th woman to win Phalke award FP BUREAU / NEW DELHI President Droupadi Murmu will confer the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award on popular yesteryear star Asha Parekh on Friday, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister anThakur Anurag nounced. The award, the 52nd in the series, will be presented at the 68th National Film Awards ceremony in the capital. Thakur said the Phalke Award selection jury decided to recognise Parekh for her lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. Asha Parekh, who will be mal Nath's tenure. However, the BJP government expedited the project in 2020. He said PM Narendra Modi would inaugurate the first phase of the project on October 11. CONTD. ON P6 only the seventh woman to receive India’s highest recognition in the field of cinema, is a renowned actress, director and producer and an accomplished Indian classical dancer. Starting her career as a child artiste in 1952 aged 10, Parekh made her debut as leading lady in Nasir Husain’s Dil Deke Dekho (1959) and went on to act in over 95 movies, including such celebrated hits as Teesri Manzil (1966), Love In Tokyo (1966), Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke (1969), Aan Milo Sajna (1970), Kati Patang (1971) and Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971). She is one of the few Hindi film stars to appear on screen in roles from a child to a dowager. , Interestingly Parekh was rejected as ‘not star material’ for Vijay Bhatt’s Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), but made her name with Dil Dekhe Dekho opposite Shammi Kapoor the same year and went on to become one of Hindi cinema’s top heroines in the 1960s. CONTD. ON P6 matter in connection with issues relating to freedom of speech of public/state functionaries. It will hear another matter raising an issue, whether the immunity to legislative Assembly members, under Article 194(2), in connection with any vote given by them in the legislature includes immunity against prosecution . for bribery The top court will also hear a matter in connection with questions under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Abu Salem gets three-year term in fake passport case LUCKNOW underworld don Salem Abu has been sentenced to three in years prison in a fake passport case. CBI's special judicial magistrate Samridhi Mishra pronounced the sentence . here on Tuesday Apart from Abu Salem, another convict Parvez Alam has also been sentenced in the fake passport case. Abu Salem a.k.a Abdul Qayoom Ansari, along with his associates Parvez Alam and Sameera Jumani, had applied for a passport in the name of Aqeel Ahmed Azmi at the Lucknow passport office in 1993. Salem affixed forged documents of fake name and address with the application and obtained passport, which he later used. After investigation into the case, the CBI had filed a charge-sheet. Taking cognisance of this, the court had framed charges against Salem on June 5, 2009. Salem was sentenced to life by a TADA court in 2015 after finding him guilty in the 1995 murder of builder Pradeep Jain. Former