FREE PRESS - VOL. XXXIX NO. 229 | INDORE | MONDAY | JANUARY 23, 2023 | PAGES 12 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; RNI No. 38281/83 EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE `3 QUALITY AT VALUE WEATHER 28.50c. 13.00c Sunrise : 07.09 Sunset : 06.07 Judges' 10 killed in California shooting HC judgeappointment: Rijiju shares video of saying SC 'hijacked Constitution' WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN EDIT GOVT, SC NEED TO REACH COMPROMISE FOR 24X7 UPDATES MALE SHOOTER flees after killing at Chinese New Year party News Brief Walkar case: Police may file charge sheet by Jan-end NEW DELHI: Sources in the Delhi Police have said that they may file the charge sheet in the Shraddha Walkar murder case by the end of January. Walkar was killed by her live-in partner, Aftab Amin Poonawala in May last year. Poonawala was placed under arrest on November 12, 2023 and currently is in judicial custody.The police have tried to make the case watertight. They have collected all the possible evidence to make sure that Poonawala gets maximum punishment. Deshmukh bail: SC to hear appeal today NEW DELHI: Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the CBI's appeal challenging the Bombay High Court order granting bail to former home minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case. CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala would consider the plea of the probe agency against the high court's bail order. Morcha against 'Love Jihad' in Pune PUNE: Various Hindutva bodies under the aegis of Sakal Hindu Samaj on Sunday took out a protest march in Maharashtra's Pune city against "love jihad", illegal conversions and cow slaughter. The 'Hindu Jan Akrosh Morcha' started at the historical Lal Mahal and culminated at the statue of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj in Deccan area, a distance of about 5 km. LOS ANGELES: At least 10 people were killed, and another 10 injured, in a shooting on Saturday night in California's Monterey , Park city where thousands of people had gathered for the Lunar New Year festival, as per local police, reports said. The incident happened at around 10.20 p.m. local time on Saturday (11.50 a.m. on Sunday IST). 12 injured in US nightclub shooting Police vehicles block the street near a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, California on Sunday "Last night, at approximately 22:22 (local time) officers from the Monterey Park police department responded to a local business Singrauli-Rewa-Jabalpur industrial corridor will be built soon: CM OUR STAFF REPORTER Bhopal Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and defence minister Rajnath Singh distributed free plots to 25,412 poor families under the Mukhya Mantri Awasiya Bhu-Adhikar Yojana in Singrauli on Sunday towards Modi and the BJP by going to the people. The whole world is getting the image that there is only hatred in India," he said. He also stated that in the recent clash with the PLA MEN IN BLUE ARRIVE IN INDORE FOR THIRD ODI New Cong executive body of MP announced BHOPAL: AICC declared the new executive body of MP on Sunday. The body comprises 21 members in the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), 50 vice prezs, 105 gen secys and 64 DCC prezs. PAC comprises Kamal Nath, Digvijaya Singh, Govind Singh, Kantilal Bhuria, Suresh Pachori, Arun Yadav, Ajay Singh, Vivek Tankha, Raj Mani Patel, Nakul Nath, Bala Bacchan, Jitu Patwari, Surendra Choudhary, RN Rawat, NP Prajapati, Sajjan Singh Verma, Arif Aqeel, Kamleshwar Patel, Manohar Joshi, Rameshwar Neekhra and Sobha Ozha. troops, our jawans did a "charismatic job" and dis. played their bravery He slammed the Congress party for questioning the valour of our jawans. CONTD. ON P6 BRAZIL ARMY CHIEF FIRED AFTER RIOTS BRASILIA: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the January 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters. The official website of the Brazilian armed forces said Saturday Gen. Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the . army He was replaced by Gen. Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who was head of the Southeast Military Command. SC to hear pleas of Rana Ayyub summons NEW DELHI :The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday the petition of journalist Rana Ayyub challenging the summons issued to her by a special PMLA court in Ghaziabad in a money laundering case lodged against her by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).According to the list of business uploaded on the apex court website, Ayyub's petition is listed before a bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala. (on) West Garvey Avenue in the city of Monterey Park regarding a shots fired call. "When officers arrived on scene they ar- Rahul creating hatred among people to gain power: Rajnath Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh minced no words in criticizing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' during a programme held in . Singrauli on Sunday Singh accused the Congress leader of creating hatred among people in order to regain power, and alleged that he (Rahul) was tarnishing country's image at international forums. The Union minister asked Rahul not to play with India's "prestige and pride". "I humbly want to say to Rahulji, don't spoil the image of India in the world by talking about hatred. You are creating hate by talking about it. You create hatred Polling results of civic bodies today OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Vote counting for elections held in 19 civic bodies will be held on Monday. Nearly 67.9% of voting was registered in 19 civic bodies for which elections were held on January 20. State election commissioner Basant Pratap Singh informed that the preparations of the counting of the votes were complete. The elections were held in 19 civic bodies in Guna, Anuppur, Khandwa, Barwani, Dhar districts. The polling was conducted at 720 polling stations. As many as 1,144 candidates contested the elections held for 343 wards. KAMAL NATH THREATENS POLICE Nath is a frustrated man, says Chouhan OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has condemned state Congress president and ex-chief minister Kamal Nath for intimidating government officials at public functions by saying that the latter would be taken to task if Congress would form government in the state. “It is his (Kamal Nath) frustration. Sometimes, he calls himself as future chief minister, sometime he becomes an astrologer by reading panchang. Only a frustrated person can speak such a language. He is a veteran leader and should exercise restraint,” Chouhan said in Bhopal on Sunday. Chouhan further said that election manifesto of Congress was all pomp and show and promises made in it were not fulfilled. Kamal Nath is often heard saying that Congress was preparing the list of officers who worked as BJP agents and Congress would take action against them after forming government. CONTD. ON P6 'Houses made of cow dung not affected by atomic radiation' ONLINE REPORT A court in Gujarat has made some curious observations on cow slaughter while sentencing a man to life imprisonment for illegally transporting cattle. "All the problems of the earth will be solved if cow slaughter is stopped," legal news website Live Law quoted the Principal District Judge of Tapi district court as saying while passing the order. Samir Vinodchandra Vyas also said that "houses made of cow dung are not affected by atomic radiation" and BRANDS MUST BE PERSISTENT IN THE METAVERSE: RAJAT OJHA Pg-12 use of gaumutra (cow urine) is a "cure for many incurable diseases". "Science has proved that houses made of cow dung are not affected by atomic radiation. The use of gaumutra [cow urine] is a cure for many incurable diseases," the judge claimed, adding religion is born out of a cow.There is no scientific basis for the claims made by the judge. The order, passed in November, also expressed dissatisfaction over the fact all the talk surrounding cow protection has not been put into practice, reported Bar and Bench. "Cow is not only an animal but a mother. A cow is the living planet of 68 crore holy places and 33 crore gods. The obligation of a cow on the entire universe defies description. CONTD. ON P6 Baton Rouge: Authorities in Louisiana say 12 people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Baton Rouge early on Sunday. One of the victims is in critical condition, while the rest are listed as stable, police said. No arrests have been made.The shooting occurred inside Dior Bar & Lounge at 1:30 am, said police. rived numerous individuals Â- patrons of the location Â- pouring out of the location screaming. CONTD. ON P6 3 charred to death as car catches fire after hitting tree perBILASPUR: Three sons were charred to death when their car caught fire after ramming into a tree in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh's district, police said on Sun. day The accident occurred at Khaira-Podi village between Ratanpur and Pendra road on Saturday night, Ratanpur-Kota sub divisional officer of police (SDOP) Ashish Arora said. A fire broke out in the car after it rammed into a tree on the side of the road. The victims could not get out of the vehicle and were charred to death, he said. The victims, whose skeletal remains were found inside the car, are yet to be identified, the official said. CONTD. ON P6 NEW DELHI Amid the ongoing berow tween the Centre and judiciary over appointment of judges, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday cited comments by a retired high court judge that the Supreme Court "hijacked" the Constitution by deciding to appoint judges itself - and said he considered former judge's view "sane". Rijiju also said that a majority of the people have similar sane views. Sharing the interview of former Delhi High Court judge, Justice R.S. Sodhi tweeted: Rijiju (retd), PM'S PAT ON THE BACK FOR CJI NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded CJI Chandrachud's recent comments on making Supreme Court judgments available in regional languages. The CJI had made the comments at an event in Mumbai. "At a recent function, the Hon'ble CJI Justice DY Chandrachud spoke of the need to work towards making SC judgm-ents available in regional languages. He also suggested the use of technology for it. This is a laudatory thought," Modi tweeted. "Voice of a judge...Real beauty of Indian Democracy is- it's success. People rule themselves through representatives. their representatives Elected represent the interests of the people & make laws. Our Judiciary is independent and our Constitution is Supreme". In an interview, Justice Sodhi said the right to frame laws lies with the Parliament and added that the Supreme Court cannot frame laws as it does not Man kills wife, 2 kids, buries them at home RATLAM : A man allegedly killed his wife, 7-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter and buried their bodies in . his house in Ratlam, a police official said on Sunday The bodies were dug up on Sunday evening, nearly two months after the killings, during which time the man lived in the house without arousing suspicion, he said. "The incident came to light after some people realised the kin of the accused were missing. The man was questioned and he confessed to killing them. The bodies were dug up in the presence of doctors and forensic experts," Ratlam Superintendent of Police Abhishek Tiwari told reporters. "The accused has said he carried out the killings with an axe due to a family feud. More details will come out after a probe. We will also take help of DNA tests to make sure the bodies are of the accused's wife and two minor children," the SP said. The accused as well as an associate who helped him bury the bodies have been arrested, the official added. have the right to do so. Sodhi, speaking in Hindi, said: "Whether you can amend the Constitution? will Parliament Only amend the Constitution. But here I feel the Supreme Court for the first time 'hijacked' the Constitution." "After 'hijacking', they (the apex court) said that we will appoint (judges) ourselves and the government will have no role in it," he said. CONTD. ON P6 Man who fled 5-star hotel without paying Rs 23 lakh bill, held NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Sunday remanded a man arrested for allegedly staying at a five-star hotel here for about four months by posing as a functionary of the UAE royal family and fleeing with an outstanding bill of more than Rs 23 lakh in two days' . police custody Magistrate Shivangi Vyas sent Mahamed Sharif for custodial interrogation, noting that police had to recover certain articles from his residence in Delhi, which were allegedly stolen by him. CONTD. ON P6