FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 99 | INDORE | MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Neeraj logs another runners up finish, misses crown by 1cm ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MONEY BHOPAL/INDORE In a tragic incident on Sunday evening, two MBBS students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore E-paper Market Outlook: Fed meeting, FII data key factors this week 6 pilgrims from Dewas killed in Raj accident FP News Service Our Staff Reporter Krishna and Arvind 4Continued on | P6 fp Briefs DHAKA Attempt to murder case against Hasina A fresh case has been filed against Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 58 others on the charges of attempting to murder a student during the violent clashes that led to the fall of her government. RANCHI 6 Vande Bharat trains flagged off Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday virtually flagged off six Vande Bharat trains for Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar and UP at Ranchi. By invitation I Among the names doing the rounds was that of his wife Sunita. Kejriwal also seems to be itching for early elections and has demanded that the elections in the national capital, scheduled for February, be held in November along with the polls in Maharashtra. Responding to the abrupt development, BJP's Harish Khurana questioned why the AAP leader is creating such a hullabaloo. "Why after 48 hours? He should resign today. In the past too, he has done this. People of Delhi are asking, he can't go to the secretariat, can't sign documents? What is the point then?" The Delhi Congress welcomed Kejriwal's resignation, saying it was better late than never. s Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement that he will resign in 48 hours, a masterstroke? This is a legitimate question that must be nagging residents of Delhi and outside. The fact is that this is a desperate act of damage control and an attempt to salvage the party’s prestige, at a time when the Delhi assembly elections are around the corner. Kejriwal has been CM of Delhi since 2013 when for the first time AAP formed a government with the support of the Congress. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Modi: JMM alliance patronising B’deshi, Rohingya infiltrators FP News Service JAMSHEDPUR Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Jharkhand`s ruling JMM-led coalition of patronising Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltration for vote bank politics, alleging that it was also resulting in change of the demography of the Santhal Parganas and Kolhan regions of the state. “Infiltrators from the neighbouring country pose a major threat to Jharkhand as they are changing the demography of the Santhal Parganas and Kolhan regions of the state, he cautioned while addressing BJP's 'Parivartan Maharally' at Gopal Maidan in Jamshedpur. "Bangladeshi and Rohingya INDORE PTI KOTA Ashutosh Desperate bid to salvage AAP PM Modi with Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren infiltrators have become a major threat to Santhal Parganas and Kolhan regions. The demography of these regions is changing fast. The tribal population is on the decline. The infiltrators are taking control of the panchayat system, grabbing land, committing atrocities against daughters of the state...Each Jharkhand resident is feeling unsafe," PM remarked. He was sounding poll bugle Speeding BMW kills two women on two-wheeler The car was coming from the wrong side NEW DELHI drowned while visiting the Dhawari Dam near Ajaygarh town in Panna district. The deceased, identified as Krishna Gupta and Arvind Prajapati, are students of MBBS first year in MGM Medical College. The two deceased alongwith their classmate Abhishek Bairwa had gone for a swim in the dam. Krishna and Arvind lost their balance and drowned while Abhishek managed to swim to safety. According to Ajaygarh police station in-charge Ravi Jadoun, Krishna Gupta, had returned to his home district of Panna along with his classmates, Arvind from Umaria and Abhishek from Pipalkheda, Rajasthan. mubarak Brand Sutra The Budget Hotel Boom P.12 Kejriwal to become Aam Aadmi again Two days after he was granted bail and walked out of prison after six months, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has decided to take the high moral ground and announced his resignation from the top post. "Two days later, I will resign as Chief Minister. I will not sit on that chair till the people announce their verdict. Elections in Delhi are months away. I got justice from the apex court, now I will get justice from the people's court. I will sit on the Chief Minister's chair only after the order of the people," he said, as he tried to underscore that he has no lust for power. This was the Chief Minister’s first big gathering following his exit from jail. However, there won’t be a political vacuum in his absence and Kejriwal said a member of the party will be named Chief Minister after his resignation. Milad-un-Nabi Edit Kejriwal’s bail is not the end of AAP’s problems P.8 MAKEOVER | Proposes to step down within two days as CM 2 MGM MBBS students drown so that he can resurrect the party at the ground level at Dhawari Dam in Panna Our Staff Reporter MUMBAI A speeding truck rammed into a van in Rajasthan's Bundi district, leaving six pilgrims dead and three others injured early Sunday, police said. The accident took place around 5 am when nine pilgrims hailing from Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh were en route to the Khatu Shyam temple in Sikar district. The deceased, who were in the age group of 1640 years, have been identified as Madan Nayak, Mangilal Nayak, Mahesh Nayak, Rajesh and Punam. One of the deceased is yet to be identified. The truck veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit the van, Circle Inspector Pavan Meena of Hindoli police station told PTI. A hunt has been launched for the truck. In a ghastly accident, a recklessly driven BMW coming from the wrong side killed two young women riding a twowheeler under the Khajrana police station's jurisdiction late on Saturday night. This incident is reminiscent HIT AND RUN of a similar Pune accident in which two engineers were killed by a high-speed Porsche a few month ago. The accident occurred on Mahalaxmi Nagar Main Road at 11:53 pm. The victims were carrying food with them as they were planning to meet someone and eat. Locals rushed them to the hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. According to police, the deceased were identified as Diksha, daughter of Lakshmi Diksha The errant driver was driving fast as he was carrying a cake and had to be somewhere before 12 am to celebrate his friend’s birthday Ashok Jadoun, a native of Gwalior and Lakshmi, daughter of Nathu Singh Tomar, a native of Shivpuri. Both were friends and working in different private companies. Diksha owned the two-wheeler and she was riding it while Lakshmi was riding pillion. The driver fled the scene after abandoning the vehicle in a narrow street. 4Continued on | P6 ‘Soundproof’ NH 44 develops potholes in Seoni CBI hints at nexus; produces Dr Ghosh & Mondal in court for the upcoming Jharkhand assembly election. The schedule for the assembly polls has yet to be announced. PM alleged that JMM was supporting infiltrators and also claimed that "illegal immigrants from the neighbouring country were actually establishing influence" over the ruling party in the state. Last Thursday, the central government in its counter affidavit filed in the Jharkhand High Court in connection with a PIL seeking probe on Bangladeshi intrusion and changing demography of Santhal Pargana revealed that the tribal population in the region has decreased by 16 per cent. Our Staff Reporter Gets two days remand 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 BHOPAL Some portions of National Highway 44 of Seoni have suffered massive damage. The road in stretches has developed big potholes and now repair works is being done. The damage to this national highway has accrued the political hues as Congress is up in arms over the issue. It is learnt that this national highway, which is first sound proof highway passing from the area of Pench Tiger Reserve, was constructed at the cost of around Rs 960 crores. Within a short span of just few years, it has developed countless potholes and needed repair work. Agencies KOLKATA Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College, spoke to Tala Police station's officer-incharge Abhijit Mondal in the hours after a 31-year-old doctor was found dead on the hospital premises, and there may be a nexus and that needs to be uncovered, CBI told a Kolkata court today. The central agency last night arrested Mondal under charges of tampering with evidence in the rape-murder case that has shaken the RG KAR HORROR country. Dr Ghosh, arrested earlier in a financial irregularities case, also faces the evidence tampering charge now. The two were produced in court today and were remanded in CBI's custody for two days. The case will be heard next on September 17. "The FIR was registered at night. We have call records that show communication between the OC and Sandip Ghosh. There may be a nexus and we need to uncover the case. We want to confront both of them," the CBI's counsel told the court. "There is no clash between CBI and police. We want to get to the truth. For us he is not a police officer, he is a suspect," the counsel added. Both the Calcutta High Court and the Supreme Court have questioned the delay in the registration of the FIR, which was filed over 14 hours after the doctor's body was found. 4Continued on | P6 Passengers squirm for hours on flight Man held over murder, Saini will be rape of 8-yr daughter Haryana CM, FP News Service GUNA PTI MUMBAI The passengers of an IndiGo flight (6E 1303) from Mumbai to Doha squirmed in their seats on board for more than four hours as the flight was delayed due to technical glitch on Sunday. The flight, originally scheduled for 3:55 AM departure, remained grounded until at least 9 AM, affecting hundreds of travelers. The 250 to 300 passengers were finally asked to de-board, only to be stranded in the holding area at the airport; later, they were taken to the immigration waiting area. “The aircraft tried to depart for its destination a couple of times but the flight had to befinally aborted due to the extended time lag on account of various procedural delays,” an Indigo spokesperson was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI. “The customers are being provided hotels and are being rebooked as per their final destination. FP painting competition Winners of the painting competition with prizes and certificates in Bhopal on Sunday A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district, with a doctor suspecting that she was raped before being killed, an official said on Sunday. The child's body with a hand and a leg tied to a stone was found in a well on Saturday, three days after she went missing under Chachoda police station limits, some 75 km from the district headquarters, an official said. Chachoda police station incharge Machal Singh Mandeliya said suspicion arose about the likely involvement of the girl's father as he was not showing any interest in the search for his daughter. Citing the initial probe, he said the girl was last seen with her father before she went missing. After the girl's body was found, police handed it over to her family after post-mortem, he said. Police detained the girl's father after her last rites on Sunday morning, Mandeliya said. The father told the investigators that he killed the girl and dumped her body in a well after tying her hand and leg to a stone with a towel. As one shopkeeper said on condition of anonymity, ‘‘There is 28 per cent unemployment amongst our youth while the figure for women is 48.6 per cent. The cancellation of the 149-year-old tradition of the shifting of Capital, called the `Darbar Move,’ during the winter months, has adversely affected our business. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Public in Valley in no mood to forgive & forget Rashme Sehgal If ‘Azaadi’ was the war cry of the nineties, today the Valley, along with the Jammu region, is resonating with a rare show of unanimity to the cry of restoration of statehood. No political party can ignore it. Five- time J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah has stated publicly that the first resolution the J&K assembly will pass will be the demand for the restoration of statehood. As against this, Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Jammu assured the public that that the government was committed to restoration of statehood. But he added to it the caveat `at an appropriate time,’ post the assembly elections. And that is where the rub is. Disgruntlement against the BJP and its step motherly treatment towards these two vital UTs is running high across the Jammu region. The public here is in no mood to forgive and forget given that abrogation of Article 370 did not bring the benefits they had been promised. On the contrary, they have seen their lands and jobs being handed over to outsiders resulting in the second highest unemployment rate across the country, according to NITI Aayog stats. Rajesh Moudgil CHANDIGARH Six-time legislator and Haryana’s former home minister Anil Vij on Sunday said that he would stake claim to the chief minister’s post on the basis of his seniority, if BJP comes to power. The statement has embarrassed the state leadership as the BJP has already decided to fight the election under the incumbent chief minister Nayab Singh Saini. The polling for the 90member Haryana assembly is scheduled for October 5 and votes would be counted on October 8. Stating that while he is the senior most MLA in the party and he has never asked for anything in the past, but the people of the state wanted him to be the chief minister. He held that the decision is to be taken by the party high command but if he is made the chief minister, he would change the fate and face of Haryana. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was quick to respond to Vij’s unpretentious outburst and assert that Saini is the BJP's CM face and the party will score a hat-trick in the state under his leadership. offgrid SRINAGAR not Vij: BJP