FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 177 | BHOPAL | TUESDAY | DECEMBER 10, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Is shifting the order key to unlocking Rohit’s potential? P.14 Our Staff Reporter People seen in woollen clothes after temperature drops in Bhopal on Monday corded a 2.9 degrees Celsius drop in night temperature settled at 9.2 degrees Celsius. Similarly, Indore recorded a drop of 4.6 degrees Celsius in day temperature settled at 22.9 degrees Celsius, while it recorded a drop of 2.9 degrees Celsius in night temperature, taking the minimum to 11.4 degrees Celsius. 4Continued on | P6 No trust motion against Dhankhar The turbulent relations between Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and the INDIA bloc came to a head on Monday with opposition camp sources saying they are considering submitting a notice "very soon" for moving a resol- BHOPAL ution to remove the vice president from his office. They said the opposition had required signatures from all INDIA bloc parties in August itself but did not move as they decided to give Dhankhar "another chance but his conduct" convinced them to go ahead with it. 4Continued on | P6 Places night temp (°C) Shivpuri 6.8 Neemuch 7.4 Rajgarh 7.6 Guna 8.6 Pachmarhi 9.0 Bhopal 9.2 Dhar 9.4 Sanjay Malhotra new RBI Guv NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday appointed Sanjay Malhotra, Secretary (Revenue) in the Ministry of Finance as the next Reserve Bank of India Governor. He will replace Shaktikanta Das, who with a six-year stint is the secondlongest serving RBI Governor. UJJAIN PRESS PUNE INDORE NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Despot gone, but future tense in Syria P.8 Cinema Sonu Sood’s power-packed thriller P.16 VIDISHA SHOCKER | Accused is a distant relative of the complainant BJP leader booked for rape Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL BHOPAL PTI EDITIONS: Govt still functioning: Syrian Prime Minister Day temp goes down by 4.4°C, night by 2.9°C in Bhopal NEW DELHI iii QUALITY @ VALUE WORLD Chill prevails as state sees sharp temp drop A sharp drop in day as well as night temperature was recorded in the state on Monday. A drop in temperature was noticed, especially in the western region of the state. Divisions like Bhopal, Indore and Narmadapuram witnessed a sharp drop in temperature, according to the meteorological department officials. Bhopal recorded a drop of 4.4 degrees Celsius in day temperature settled at 23.4 degrees Celsius, while it re- ESTD-1983 A BJP office-bearer of Vidisha district was booked for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman, the police said on Monday. SDOP Manoj Mishra said the woman filed a complaint at the Natern police station, alleging that she was raped by BJP district vice-president Yogendra Singh Solanki several times. She stated that Solanki is her distant relative and she used to call him ‘Chacha’. In May 2020, when she was alone at home, Solanki came and raped her. After that, whenever he found her alone, he raped her, she alleged. She also claimed that in July this year, they entered a contract that Solanki will give Rs 15 lakh for her marriage. “But more details of the agreement were not mentioned in the complaint,” the SDOP added. Recently, Solanki repeated the act and she narrated the ordeal to her parents. Her parents approached the police on December 5 and filed a complaint, the SDOP added. On the report, the police have registered a case and launched an investigation. However, no arrest has been made into the case. Following the FIR, Solanki gave his resignation from the party post and membership. In his resignation, he mentioned that the complaint against him is fake and fabricated. Meanwhile, state Congress president Jitu Patwari lashed out at the BJP and alleged that rape cases are increasing in the state and several BJP leaders’ name are coming to light. He added that the police and the BJP were not taking action against the leader. Some 10 days ago, a teacher was raped by a BJP leader in Balaghat and in Jabalpur, a BJP leader raped a woman in lieu of giving her job, he alleged. HC quashes state merit ‘Attacks on religious places regrettable’ list of NEET PG 2024 NBEMS told to prepare fresh list with incentive marks Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh High Court principal bench at Jabalpur on Monday invalidated the NEET-PG 2024 state merit list and quashed the counselling process observing discrepancies in it. The court directed the National Board of Examination in Medical Science (NBEMS) to prepare a fresh state merit PTI list awarding incentivised marks to in-service candidates, not on their raw scores but their normalized scores. A bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf passed the order while hearing of a petition filed by a resident doctor associated with Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital (SGMH) Abhishek Shukla. The court observed that the normalisation process was applied twice while preparing the merit list for MD-MS admissions. "The state merit of NEET PG 2024 examination for the state of Madhya Pradesh cannot be sustained and is accordingly quashed," the court said. "This decision aims to rectify the discrepancies and uphold the integrity of the selection process," the court observed. The petitioner has alleged that despite scoring high in the NEET merit list, many in-service candidates were ranked lower in the state merit list. Advocate Aditya Sanghi, who appeared on behalf of petitioners, explained, What NBEMS has done is that they have prepared an All India merit list adopting the normalization process and a comparative merit list is prepared by applying percentile method. 4Continued on | P6 DHAKA India raised its concerns over the safety of minorities in Bangladesh, flagging "regrettable incidents of attacks on cultural, religious and di- FOREIGN SECY’S B’DESH VISIT plomatic properties" as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met his counterpart here on Monday. Misri, the first high-level Indian official to visit Bangladesh after August 5 when prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India follow- India's foreign secretary Vikram Misri with his Bangladesh counterpart Mohammad Jashim Uddin (L) AFP ing massive protests against her government, expressed New Delhi's desire for a "positive, constructive and mutually beneficial" relationship with Dhaka. 4Continued on | P6