FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 93 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Neeraj logs another runners up finish, misses crown by 1cm Two MBBS students of MGM drown at Dhawari Dam in Panna Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL/INDORE In a tragic incident on Sunday evening, two MBBS students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore drowned while visiting the Krishna and Arvind 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. 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 last month, a media report said on Sunday. DEHRADUN Boy drowns in Ganga Two minor boys were swept away while bathing in the Ganga river at the Laxman Jhula area of Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district on Sunday morning, police said, adding one of them died while the other went missing. Police said the SDRF team reached the spot and started a search and rescue operation in the river. 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. Earlier, the PM was scheduled to flag off these trains from Tatanagar but his chopper could not take off from Ranchi airport due to poor visibility and inclement weather conditions. ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MONEY E-paper Edit Kejriwal’s bail is not the end of AAP’s problems P.8 Market Outlook: Fed meeting, FII data key factors this week Brand Sutra The Budget Hotel Boom P.12 GOOGLY: Demands ‘certificate of honesty’ from people Will resign as CM after two days, says Kejriwal 6 pilgrims from Dewas killed in Raj accident CONFESSION OF CRIME: BJP PTI NEW DELHI Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he would resign after two days and would demand early polls in Delhi while vowing not to sit in CM's chair till people give him a "certificate of honesty". Kejriwal, who was released on bail from Tihar on Friday in the excise policy graft case, said he would hold a meeting of AAP MLAs in the next couple of days and a party leader would take over as chief minister. "Delhi elections are due in February but I demand that elections in the national capital be held in November with Maharashtra," he said. "I will only sit on CM's chair after people give me a certificate of honesty. Want to give 'agnipariksha' after coming out of jail." The AAP national convener said, "I will become chief minister and Manish Sisodia deputy CM only when people say we are honest. Alleging the BJP tried to MUMBAI New Delhi: The BJP Sunday described Arvind Kejriwal's announcement of resigning from the post of Delhi chief minister as a "confession of crime" and wondered if he offered to quit the post because of an infight within his Aam Aadmi Party. It also termed Kejriwal's move a "drama" and claimed he was playing an "emotional card" in a bid to make a virtue out of necessity as the Supreme Court by granting him a "conditional bail" .in the excise policy graft case, restricted him from entering his office and signing any file. RG KAR HORROR CBI hints at nexus; produces Dr Ghosh & Mondal in court Get two days remand Agencies KOLKATA PTI KOTA 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 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. The courts have asked why the hospital administration then led by Dr Ghosh did not register a police complaint that would have ensured the filing of an FIR. 4Continued on | P6 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. Modi: JMM alliance patronising B’deshi, Rohingya infiltrators ‘Soundproof’ NH 44 develops potholes in Seoni Speeding BMW coming from wrong side kills 2 women on two-wheeler FP News Service 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 Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL INDORE 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. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 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 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 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal addresses AAP supporters at party office in New Delhi on Sunday prove him corrupt, Kejriwal said the saffron party cannot provide good schools and free electricity to people because they are corrupt. "We are honest," he asserted. "They slap false cases against non-BJP chief ministers. If they are arrested, I urge them not to resign but run the government from jail," the Delhi chief minister said. "I didn't resign (after arrest 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 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 in excise policy case) because I respect democracy and the Constitution is supreme for me," Kejriwal said and asserted that it is only the AAP that can stand up to the BJP's "conspiracies". Referring to him quitting the chief minister's post in 2014 over the Jan Lokpal Bill, just 49 days after assuming power, Kejriwal said, "I resigned then for my ideals. I do not have a lust for power." Saying that the excise policy case would go on for long, the chief minister said he wanted to ask the people of Delhi whether he is honest or guilty. Our Staff Reporter PTI BHOPAL GUNA An unidentified person allegedly stole the crown of Neha Tiwari, the woman who claimed the title of Mrs Central India last year, at the Nari Shakti Samman Samaroh organised at the Bhojpur Club on Saturday, the police said. Hours after the incident, Tiwari has lodged a police complaint at the Habibganj police station on Sunday, and the police have begun probing the incident. The theft has landed Tiwari into a tight spot, as she is slated to participate in an international competition, titled Mrs India Ocean 2024, sched- 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 uled in Korea. She, as per police, requires the crown to vie at the competition. Habibganj police station TI Ajay Kumar Soni told Free Press that in the complaint lodged by Tiwari, she mentioned that she was present at the Nari Shakti Samman Samaroh organised at the Bhojpur club on Saturday. 4Continued on | P6 Lakshmi FP painting competition Winners of the painting competition with prizes and certificates in Bhopal on Sunday their injuries. According to police, the deceased were identified as Diksha, daughter of HIT AND RUN Ashok Jadoun, a native of Gwalior and Lakshmi, daughter of Nathu Singh Tomar, a native of Shivpuri. 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. 4Continued on | P6 offgrid Unique IDs for docs: NMC starts registration PTI NEW DELHI The National Medical Commission (NMC) has initiated the process of registration of all MBBS doctors eligible to practice in India on a recently launched portal, as a part of which all medical practitioners will have a unique ID. The National Medical Register (NMR) is a dynamic database and will be a central repository of all registered doctors, in which their authenticity is verified by Aadhaar IDs. "The NMR is ready for registration of registered medical practitioners (RMPs) with immediate effect," Dr B Srinivas, Secretary of the NMC said. All the MBBS doctors Some data will be visible to the public and others will only be visible to Ethics & Medical Registration Board (EMRB) of the NMC, SMC, National Board of Examinations (NBE) and medical institutions and RMPs as per requirements, the notice said. who are registered on Indian Medical Register (IMR) have to register again on the NMR, the NMC said in a public notice recently, and added that all medical colleges/institutions, state medical councils (SMCs) are inter-linked on the portal. Some data will be visible to the public and others will only be visible to Ethics & Medical Registration Board (EMRB) of the NMC, SMC, National Board of Examinations (NBE) and medical institutions and RMPs as per requirements, the no- 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 Man held over murder, rape of 8-yr daughter Mrs Central India’s crown stolen at Bhojpur Club 4Continued on | P6 tice said. To start the registration process, doctors would need their Aadhaar IDs, a digital copy of their MBBS degree certificate and the registration certificate of the State Medical Council/Medical Council of India where the doctor got registered the first time. 4Continued on | P6 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 Man beaten to death by girl’s family FP News Service BHIKANGAON A 20-year-old youth was allegedly beaten to death by the family of a girl he visited at night after receiving her call. The deceased, identified as Bunty Bamne of Laikhedi (Jhirnya), travelled from Indore to Luhar Falya around 11 pm to meet the girl. Upon arrival, the girl's family confronted him, leading to a violent altercation that left Bunty with severe injuries. A police team led by SDOP Rakesh Arya and station incharge Meena Karnawat faced challenging conditions to reach the crime scene, navigating two kilometres of muddy roads and drains. An investigation was underway and a post-mortem will be conducted on Monday. Meanwhile, the deceased's family claimed that they were informed of Bunty's death after being called to pick him up, alleging he was beaten to death by the family of a girl.