FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 24 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | JULY 8, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.com fp FREE PRESS GREEN RUN Briefs CHENNAI ‘Body cannot be buried in office’ The body of K Armstrong, BSP's Tamil Nadu chief who was hacked to death near his Chennai home Friday, cannot be buried at the party's office in the state capital, the Madras High Court ruled today, upholding the DMK government's stand.The court said K Armstrong's body can be buried in a oneacre privately-owned plot in the adjoining Thiruvalluvar district. It added that the funeral procession taken out by BSP supporters must be held peacefully.Earlier, the slain BSP leader's wife K Porkodi had filed a petition in court, seeking its approval to bury the body at the Chennai party office. ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE Agencies MUMBAI A BMW car rammed into a couple on a scooter in Mumbai's Worli area, killing a woman. The police have launched a manhunt to catch the accused, son of a Shiv Sena leader. A woman died and her husband was injured in a hitand-run incident in Mumbai's Worli when a BMW car rammed their scooter early on Sunday. The car was being driven allegedly by Mihir Shah, the son of a leader of Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The 24-year-old man has been absconding since the incident. "The hit-and-run incident is unfortunate. I have spoken to the police, and strict action will be taken as per the law. Everyone will be treated equally.” Eknath Shinde Rajesh Shah, Mihir Shah's father and the deputy leader of the Shinde Sena in Palghar district, has been detained by the police. The BMW was registered in his name, according to the police. Rajesh Shah's driver, Rajrishi Bidawat, who was present in the car at the time of the accident, has also been detained. Police also called Mihir Shah's girlfriend to ascertain his whereabouts. 4Continued on | P6 Maharashtra CM Five from Sidhi district killed in building collapse in Surat BHOPAL Police have arrested five Naxalites and recovered explosives, including two barrel grenade launcher shells and a tiffin bomb, from them in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, an official said on Sunday. The cadres were apprehended on Saturday from Jagargunda police station limits when a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Bastar Fighters. NASHIK Sena leader’s son kills woman with BMW 4 kids drown in Agra pond 5 Naxalites held in Sukma BHOPAL MUMBAI E-paper Around 1000 participants turned up for the Free Press Green Run mini-marathon in Indore on Sunday. It was a morning full of excitement where participants warmed up with Zumba before the flag off. After the end of race all participants shaked their legs on peppy music till the prize distribution. Full Report P5 Our Staff Reporter CHHATTISGARH PUNE HIT AND RUN: Police have launched a manhunt to nab accused AGRA Four children drowned while taking a bath here in a pond on Sunday morning, as five others who attempted to save them had to be rescued by police and locals, officials said. The incident occurred near the Yamuna Expressway under the Khandauli Police Station limits in Agra district. All four children were around 1012 years of age, they said. UJJAIN PRESS 6 terrorists, 2 soldiers killed in J&K PTI SRINAGAR Five from Sidhi district, who had gone to earn a living in Surat, were among those killed when a 4-storied building collapsed there on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. All five live in Majholi police station area of Sidhi. Four of them are cousins from two families and worked in textile mills. Majholi police station incharge Deepak Baghel informed that the deceased were brothers Hiraman Kevat (40) and Lalji Kevat (40) and Shivpujan Kevat (26) and Parvesh Kevat (21), who were also brothers. The fifth deceased was Abhilash Kevat. The residential building, JCB machines remove the debris after a four-storey building collapsed at Sachin area in Surat on Sunday which was in a dilapidated condition in Pal area, collapsed at around 2.45 pm on Saturday, as per police. A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), two teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police personnel and fire brigade were involved in the rescue operation, the Surat police said in a statement. After around three hours of operation, they managed to rescue a 20-year-old woman, named Kashish Sharma, and rushed her to the hospital for treatment. The body of a man was pulled out on Saturday night and rescue teams later pulled out six more bodies from the debris , according to police. 4Continued on | P6 Six terrorists were killed and two soldiers laid down their lives in twin encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, officials said on Sunday. "The bodies of two terrorists were recovered from the Modergam encounter site while four bodies were recovered from the Chinnigam site on Sunday," they said. The twin encounters in the two villages of Kulgam district began on Saturday. Two army soldiers, including an elite para commando, laid down their lives while battling the terrorists, the officials said. Pg7 Rawat all set Loss in 7 assembly to swear-in as segments in LS polls minister today Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL worrying: Sharma Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Congress turncoat MLA from Vijaypur, Ramniwas Rawat is all set to get ministerial berth in the Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s Cabinet on Monday. Rawat is expected to be sworn in as minister at a ceremony in Raj Bhawan at 9 am today. Rawat had joined BJP at the Lok Sabha election campaign rally of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav in Vijaypur. Soures said that when Rawat had joined the party, he was promised a Cabinet berth and now the ruling party is fulfilling its promise. 4Continued on | P6 BJP’s state unit president VD Sharma has said the party was defeated in seven assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha election, although it won all the 29 parliamentary seats, which is worrying. The party won all these seven seats in the assembly election. At the state executive committee meeting held in Bhopal on Sunday, Sharma who delivered the inaugural speech said that the party was paying attention to this factor. The BJP has got more than 59% of votes this time in the Lok Sabha election, which more than the vote percentage the party got in the assembly election. CM’s mantras to run govt smoothly Our Staff Reporter Peering into his laptop sitting in Singapore, heritage enthusiast S Vijay Kumar zoomed into an art gallery in New York. Vijay was playing a sleuth and Google Street View came in handy. He looked around the gallery and located two antique bronze statues with a market value of $8.5 million stolen from India by Shubhash Kapoor. Notorious art smuggler Shubhash Kapoor is behind bars, but the two Chola bronzes of Nataraja and Sivakami (Goddess Parvati's form) are still missing. Associates of Kapoor, a USbased arts smuggler, have concealed them. And what rightfully deserves a pride of place in India, might be lying in some dingy, obscure corner of the world. In 2020, confined to her Melbourne home due to the Covid lockdown, Dolly Kikon was surfing the internet. The Naga anthropologist spotted a news article in The Guardian that gave her goosebumps. Kikon read that human remains from Nagaland had been on display at Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum in England. Among the exhibits Sandstone statue of Harihar now in the British Museum were skulls taken as trophies. "The remains don't belong there," muttered Kikon to herself. S Vijay Kumar co-founded the India Pride Project in 2013 and returned to India in 2021, and helped get back 600 artefacts stolen from India. Dolly Kikon, meanwhile, along with Scotlandbased academician Arkotong Longkumer, joined the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to get the Naga human remains, looted during British colonial rule, back to India. For centuries, the loot and then the smuggling of India's cultural artefacts, like the 4Continued on | P6 Fresh case against Mahua NEW DELHI Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that ever since he became CM, he always remembers the mantra that if one needs to work in a fine manner in state then he should recite mantra Om Shivay Namah, Om Vishnu Namay and by doing so, one can easily sail his boat till the shore. By referring to mantra Om Shivay Namah and Om Vishnu Namah, he was indirectly referring to Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP state president Vishnu Dutt Sharma. He was addressing the BJP’s extended executive committee meeting held in Bhopal on Sunday. He said government has made provisions for all sector. He said the first regional investor summit was held successfully in Ujjain and now government intends to organise investors summit in Jabalpur on July 20. 4Continued on | P6 India bringing looted, smuggled Gods back home Online Report Nevertheless, the party’s vote share was less in Vindhya and Ujjain, which is worrying, he said, adding that it should be examined. The party has made a record of wining 80% of booths in this election, but it has to register victory over rest of the 20% of booths, he said.