FP FREE PRESS The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms VOL. XXXX NO. 346 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | MAY 22, 2024 | PAGES 16 `3 - r Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026; CM speaks to MP students stuck in Kyrgyzstan, assures of help EDIT MOCKERY OF JUSTICE IN PUNE WEATHER AUSTRALIA COULD CONSIDER PLAYING ONE EXTRA BATTER DURING T20 WC SPORTS EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE 43.10c. 29.00c Sunrise : 05.44 Sunset : 07.00 THERE ARE 1,200 STUDENTS FROM STATE STUDYING THERE NEWS BRIEF Market cap hits US$ 5tn The combined market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies hit the USD 5trillion milestone for the first time on Tuesday. By generating unprecedented wealth of $1 trillion in just 6 months, the Indian stock market has joined the exclusive $5 trillion club, the fifth largest market cap country after the US, China, Japan, and Hong Kong. Significantly, it has done so after braving the FII pullout, just before the outcome of the Lok Sabha election on June 4. 40 flamingos fall after mid-air hit MUMBAI: An Emirates flight from Dubai struck a flock of flamingos, resulting in the death of around 40 birds in Mumbai, an official said on Tuesday. "Emirates can confirm that EK508 from Dubai to Mumbai on May 20 was involved in a bird strike incident upon landing. The aircraft landed safely and all passengers and crew disembarked without injury, however sadly a number of flamingos were lost and Emirates is cooperating with the authorities on the matter," an Emirates spokesperson said. NIA raids in cafe blast case NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on T uesday carried out multistate raids in connection with its probe in Bengaluru's Ramshwaram Cafe blast case, officials said. Several customers and hotel staff members were injured, some of them grievously, in the blast that caused extensive damage to the cafe in the IT city on March 1. "Multi-states raids were underway in different locations," a senior NIA official said, without sharing further details. ‘All students are safe, will be called back once their exams are over’ OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in More than 1,200 students from Madhya Pradesh are languishing in Kyrgyzstan where foreign students are being attacked. Taking cognizance of the situation, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav spoke to some students of state studying in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday and tried to learn about their well-being. He assured all possible help to all the students. Talking to the CM, the students said that they are living in a hostel and are safe. CM spoke to students including Rohit Panchal, Ravi Sarate and Vivek Sharma. He asked the students to focus on their studies as their exams were coming. He said that after the exams they would have NIA charge sheet against Canada-based Khalistani terrorist NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charge sheet against Canada-based proKhalistani terrorist Arshdeep Singh and three of his aides for being part of a conspiracy to unleash terror attacks in various parts of Punjab and Delhi, the agency Tuesday said. The action marks a big leap in NIA's efforts to destroy sleeper cells operated by Singh alias Arsh Dala to unleash terrorist attacks in various parts of Punjab and Delhi, it said. "Canada-based Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dala and his Indian agents Harjeet Singh alias Harry Maur, Ravinder Singh alias Rajvinder Singh alias Harry Rajpura, and Rajeev Kumar alias Sheela have been charge sheeted before the NIA Special Court, New Delhi (on Monday)," said the statement issued by the antiterror agency CONTD. ON P7 . Brij Bhushan pleads not guilty to sexual harassment charges AGENCIES New Delhi A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges of sexual harassment, intimidation and outraging the modesty of women against exWrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and six-time Lok Sabha MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a criminal case filed by female wrestlers. Singh pleaded not guilty to the charges and claimed trial. "Why will I plead guilty when I am not guilty?" Singh told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Priyanka Rajpoot. The court also framed the charge of criminal intimidation against co-accused and former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar in the case. The judge posted the matter for further proceedings on June 1. ACMM Rajpoot observed there was "sufficient evidence" to proceed against him. The court framed the charges against Singh under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment) and 506 (criminal intimidation). CONTD. ON P7 holidays of two-and-half months and then they would be called back home. If they come back now, they will lose a year. The CM said that in case of any emergency, the students can contact the district administrations of Madhya Pradesh and immediate action will be taken. In the released video message, the CM said that in the fight between Pakistani students and locals in Kyrgyzstan, many Pakistani students got injured. Indian students who are studying there are also worried for their safety He spoke to students . hailing from Mandsaur, Ujjain, Neemuch etc and all are safe. The CM said that the state government is in touch with Kyrgyzstan government and state students have received adequate security. Around 30,000 students from India including more than 1,200 from Madhya Pradesh are studying in Kyrgyzstan. State government has spoken with the administration of Kyrgyzstan to ensure proper security of the state students so that their studies are not affected in any way . So far, no student from state has been injured. He hoped that things would get normalized soon. State government is also in touch with Indian government over the issue. Teen killer’s father held after wild goose chase FP NEWS SERVICE / PUNE Pune real estate developer Vishal Aggarwal whose Porsche, driven by his teen son at a lethal speed of 200 km/h, mowed down two IT engineers on Sunday was arrested from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar early on Tuesday . Aggarwal, apprehending arrest after an FIR was lodged against him, enacted an elaborate charade to evade the police. While he himself headed off to Mumbai, another car was dispatched to Goa and Kolhapur, to drive the authorities off track. His family too was misinformed about his whereabouts. He had also switched off his phone but it was the GPS of a friend s car in which he had travelled to various locations, 24-hr campaign ban on ex-judge KOLKATA: The Election Commission on Tuesday censured former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his controversial comment on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and debarred him from campaigning for 24 hours. In the order, the poll panel asked BJP president JP Nadda to issue an advisory on behalf of the party to all candidates and campaigners to make sure that this lapse does not recur during the campaign period. The ECI described Gangopadhyay's remark as a "low-level personal attack", and said he violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The poll body also warned Gangopadhyay the BJP's Tamluk can, didate, to remain careful in his public utterances during the campaign. including his farmhouse in Daund and properties in Pune which clued in the police to his location. According to the FIR lodged in connection with the incident, the father, despite knowing his son did not have a valid driving licence, gave him the keys to the car, thus endangering his minor son s life, and allowed him to party knowing fully well that his son consumed liquor. The movements of the 17-year-old on Saturday and Sunday too have been reconstructed. According to the FIR, he, along with his friends, first partied at Cozy Bar between 9.30pm and 12am and then moved to Black Bar, where they partied from midnight to 1am on Sunday . CONTD. ON P7 SC dismisses review PILs on Art 370 FP NEWS SERVICE / New Delhi The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of petitions seeking a review of its December 11, 2023, verdict that unanimously upheld the Centre s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 bestowing special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Having vetted the review petitions, there is no error apparent on the face of the record, said a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which considered the pleas in chambers and dismissed applications for listing of the review petitions in the open court. No case for review under Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013. The review petitions are, therefore, dismissed, said the bench, also comprising justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, Surya Kant and A S Bopanna, in its May 1 order. CONTD. ON P7 Nation cannot move forward with INDIA bloc's sins: Modi MOTIHARI (BIHAR) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that the INDIA bloc stood for corruption, appeasement politics and a "perverted antiSanatan mindset", all of which would receive a "big blow" when the Lok Sabha poll results are announced on June 4. Addressing an election rally in the East Champaran Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, the PM also launched indirect attacks on leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav, who he said were "born with silver spoons". "The nation cannot move forward with the sins of the INDIA bloc, which stands for corruption, appeasement politics, represents the 'tukde-tukde' gang and a perverted mindset that heaps scorn on Sanatan Dharma," he said. "This is the reason why the INDIA bloc was exhausted in the very first phase of the elections. In the subsequent phases, it was battered. In the remaining two phases, the trend will continue and on June 4 when votes are counted, the results will come as a big blow to the intentions of the opposition alliance," he claimed. CONTD. ON P7 Record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 was made at least four times more likely by climate change, new research has found. In July 2023, the extent of Antarctic sea ice during winter fell to its lowest since satellite records began in late 1978, with about 2.5 million square kilometres less than usual. Researchers, led by those at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), investigated the probability of such a significant reduction in sea ice and the role of climate change in making this event more likely to happen. Using climate datasets and models, the team found that Antarctic sea ice reaching historic lows would occur only once in over 2,000 years, or was "extremely unlikely" without cli- mate change, which made the event more than four times likelier. Global climate model data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, or CMIP6, was used for analysis. "This is the first time this large set of climate models has been used to find out how unlikely 2023's low sea ice actually was. We only have 45 years of satellite measurements of sea ice, which makes it extremely difficult to evaluate changes in sea ice extent. This is where climate models come into their own," Rachel www.freepressjournal.in THE KARMA BELIEVER CINEMA 2 killed, 40 hurt as bus falls from flyover in Rajgarh OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Two persons were killed and 40 injured when a private bus fell from a flyover in Rajgarh district in the wee hours of Tuesday, police said. At least 19 havebeen critically injured in the accident. The accident occurred near Pachore town around 1.30 am when the bus, carrying 55 passengers, was NURSING COLLEGE BRIBERY SCAM CBI books four of its officers FIR against 23; 13 arrested, 10 on the run OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in CBI investigating the nursing college bribery case has registered FIR against four of its own officers in the case, said officials, on Tuesday . The CBI registered the case on May 18th and so far the sleuths have arrested 13 from Indore, Bhopal, Ratlam and Jaipur which includes two police officers, directors of nursing colleges and middlemen. In compliance with orders of High Court, the CBI, Bhopal has been conducting state-wide inspections of various nursing colleges of the state. In order to conduct this inspection, a team was constituted which included officers of CBI, Bhopal, nursing staff nominated by Indian Nursing Council (INC) and patwaris. CONTD. ON P7 THE MODUS OPERANDI crossing the flyover, police said. Pachore police station incharge Akansha Sharma said that the bus driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to plummet to the ground below. Two passengers died on the spot, and 40 were injured, she said. Among the injured, 19 suffered critical wounds and were referred to Indore, while the rest are undergoing treatment in different hospitals in Shajapur, Biora and Pachore. One of the deceased was identified as Harjat Singh (28), and the identity of the other victim is yet to be ascertained, she said. The bus was on its way to Pichhore town in Shivpuri district from Indore, she said. The police have launched a search for the bus driver and conductor who fled the scene after the accident, and a case has been registered against them, the official said. SEE PAGE-3 Inspector Rahul Raj, one of the corrupt officers, was in regular touch with the middlemen and shared the schedule of CBI inspection with various nursing college heads, fixing the bribe amount according to the deficiencies of their infrastructure, providing suitability report to ineligible nursing colleges and collecting bribe amount from them. It is also claimed that Rahul Raj used to have meetings with them at regular intervals. It is also claimed that the bribe money being collected by this cartel from each nursing college varied from Rs 2 lakhs to Rs 10 lakhs. This bribe money was later shared among CBI officers of the inspection team and the middlemen. Source also claimed that in addition to this amount, Rs 25,000 to 50,000 was paid as bribe to each nursing officer and the specialist attached to the CBI team for each inspection. Each patwari attached to the CBI team was also paid a bribe amount of Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000. Bribe amount for the nursing officer, specialist and patwari used to be delivered by these private persons on the same day or day after inspection. THE ACCUSED The accused are Ashish Prasad, Dy SP, CBI, Bhopal and Rahul Raj, inspector, CBI, Bhopal, Sushil Kumar Majoka, inspector CBI, Bhopal, Rishi Kant Asathe, inspector, CBI, Bhopal, Jugal Kishore from Gwalior, Om Goswami from Indore, Anil Bhaskaran from Bhopal, Ravi Bhadoria from Indore, Preeti Tilakwar from Indore, Ved Sharma from Indore, Zuber Khan from Indore, Ashok Nagar from Jhalawar, Sachin Jain from Bhopal, Radha Raman from Gwalior, Rohit Sharma from Gwalior, Kamal Hirani of Shri Sai Baba College in Indore, Ashish Chouhan, director of Dhar College of Education, Mukesh Giri Goswami, the director of Shubhdeep College of Nursing in Indore, Mohit Niroge from Khargone Institute of Medical Science in Khargone, Gaurav Sharma, staff of Pratyansh College of Nursing in Indore, Rahul Sharma from Jaipur, Dharampal from Ganganagar. Man held for rape, murder of six-year-old girl in Burhanpur BURHANPUR A man has been arrested for allegedly raping and strangling a six-year-old girl before dumping her body in a dilapidated house in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district, police said on Tuesday. The police recovered the child's body from an unoccupied house in the Shikarpura police station limits on Monday, two days after she went missing from her home, an official said. After receiving a short post-mortem report, the police added sections 302 (murder), 201 (destroying evidence), and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in the case, Superintendent of Police 1 arrested for 'attack' on Kanhaiya ONE DEAD ON HORROR FLIGHT NEW DELHI Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a 41-year-old man who allegedly assaulted and attacked with ink Congress' Lok Sabha candidate Kanhaiya Kumar last week, officials said. The police said the accused, Ajay Kumar, was arrested from his residence in New Usmanpur, the area where the incident occurred, adding that efforts are on to round up the other accused in the case. CONTD. ON P7 Antarctica's record-low sea ice levels due to climate change: Study NEW DELHI QUALITY AT VALUE r RNI No. 38281/83 Diamond, BAS, lead author of the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, said. "According to the models, the record-breaking minimum sea ice extent would be a one-in-a2000-year event without climate change. This tells us that the event was very extreme -- anything less than one-in-100 is considered exceptionally unlikely," Diamond said. CONTD. ON P7 Devendra Patidar said. Following a probe, the police arrested the accused, Gaurav alias Khushal, who confessed to the crime, he said. The accused lured the girl to his house when he was alone on the afternoon of May 18, raped and strangled her, the official said.He then dumped the body in the dilapidated and unoccupied house nearby, he said. Severe turbulence as aircraft plummets 6,000 feet FP NEWS SERVICE Bangkok A British national, 73, who had a heart condition, died and several others were injured on board a LondonSingapore flight that encountered severe turbulence in stormy weather, after it had crossed the Bay of Bengal. There were at least three Indian nationals among the 229 people on board. Tracking data showed the Singapore Airlines flight cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet. Suddenly, in a span of three minutes, the Boeing 777 sharply plummeted to 31,000 feet. Passengers recounted the dramatic drop and said some of them who were not wearing seatbelts being hurled towards the cabin ceiling. The aircraft hovered at 31,000 feet for just under 10 minutes before rapidly descending and landing in Bangkok, 3 INDIANS ON BOARD where it was diverted. Pictures from inside the aircraft showed how intense the turbulence was with baggage strewn around, oxygen masks dangling and monitors and parts of interior ripped off. Emergency crews at Bangkok airport rushed to help injured passengers and footage showed a line of ambulances streaming to the runaway. Flight SQ 321 was carrying a total of 211 passengers; 18 of them were rushed to a hospital and twelve received treatment. Seven passengers are believed to be critical. One woman who had a cut on her head was heard howling. According to BBC there were several passengers with lacerations and bleeding ears. CONTD. ON P7