FP FREE PRESS The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms VOL. 13 NO. 340 | BHOPAL | 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 Flamingos hit by aeroplane 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. Mentally ill mom slits toddler's throat BALRAMPUR (UP): A mentally unstable woman allegedly murdered her 15month-old daughter by slitting her throat with a sharp-edged weapon here, police said on Tuesday. The 30-year-old woman, Nadia, also allegedly slit her own throat after killing her child but was rescued in an injured condition, they added. 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.The probe agency, that took over the case on March 3, had on April 12 arrested two key accused, including the mastermind Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa, in the matter. ‘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 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 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. 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 anti-Sanatan 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 Brij Bhushan pleads not guilty to sexual harassment charges AGENCIES New Delhi 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. 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 PORSCHE ACCIDENT Police detain teen’s father AGENCIES Pune 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. Modi alleged that Congress wants to change the Constitution to "snatch" reservations from SCs, STs and OBCs, and hand it over to those who indulge in "vote jihad". "If Ambedkar was not there, Nehru would not have allowed reservation for SCs and STs," he claimed. Modi also bristled at the opposition parties' criticism of welfare schemes run by his government, claiming his opponents had "bundles of notes stashed away in Swiss banks" and could not understand the plight of the common people "the way I do, having been born in a poor family". "They were opening accounts in Swiss banks, while the people of India were starving," he alleged. Referring to Tejashwi Yadav, whom he did not mention by name, Modi said, "I am told that the 'waaris of jungle raaj' has been saying I will be advised bed rest after the Lok Sabha elections. The 'shehzada' of Congress says he wants to see me in tears. His party openly chants slogans like 'Modi teri kabr khudegi' (your grave will be dug)." CONTD. ON P7 EC debars ex-judge from campaigning for 24 hours NIA charge sheet against Canada-based Khalistani terrorist 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). CONTD. ON P7 jvinder 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 anti-terror agency . The three aides were running a major terror-gangster syndicate in India on the directions of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) terrorist Dala. Accused Maur and Rajpura were operating as sleeper cells and were being harboured by Rajeev Kumar, and the trio had planned to carry out a series of terror attacks on Dala's directions and with funds received from him, the NIA said. CONTD. ON P7 NEW DELHI The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charge sheet against Canada-based pro-Khalistani 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 Ra- Police have detained the father of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in a car accident that killed two persons in in Pune and arrested three executives of two hotels for serving liquor to the juvenile, officials said on Tuesday . The Porsche car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, knocked down two motorbike riders in Kalyani Nagar area in Maharashtra's Pune city in the early hours of Sunday, causing their death, as per officials. "We have detained the teenager's father from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and he is being brought to Pune and will be arrested in the case registered against him," Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar said. 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. 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 Air turbulence claims man’s life in Singapore Airlines flight 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 An elderly British man died and more than two dozen passengers were injured when a Singapore Airlines flight from London was struck by severe turbulence and plunged 6,000 feet in the span of some a few minutes Tuesday over the Indian Ocean. The flight was then diverted and landed in stormy weather in Bangkok. Authorities said the British man may have suffered a heart attack, though that has not been confirmed. His name was not immediately released. The Boeing 777-300ER flight from London's Heathrow airport to Singapore, with 211 passengers and 18 crew members aboard, landed at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport at 3:45 pm local time, the airline said in a Facebook post. Emergency medical NEW DELHI Antarctica's record-low sea ice levels due to climate change: Study NEW DELHI QUALITY AT VALUE r RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 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. BANGKOK crews rushed to help the passengers. Videos posted on the LINE messaging platform by Suvarnabhumi Airport showed a line of ambulances streaming to the scene. In a statement posted on Facebook, Singapore Airlines said that as of four hours after the emergency landing, 18 people remained hospitalized while another 12 were treated on outpatient basis. "The remaining passengers and crew are being examined and given treatment, where necessary," at the airport, it said. Airports of Thailand group said the lightly injured and non-injured passengers are being assisted at a specially assigned location inside the terminal at the Suvarnabhumi Airport. CONTD. ON P7