FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 308 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 16, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in Sports Class, Consistency & Champions Trophy - The Triple Crown P.13 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE MONEY Not activating countercyclical capital buffer: Reserve Bank NATIONAL HERALD CASE | ED accuses Sonia and Rahul of money laundering; also names Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey CHARGESHEETED VADRA GRILLED (From Left ) Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday announced that it has filed a chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper. Incidentally, both Sonia and Rahul are at present out on bail in the same case. They are accused of laundering Rs 988 crore. The central agency, which had begun investigations into the case on a complaint filed by Subramanian Swamy in 2012, has also named Congress fp Briefs MUMBAI Indices up 2 per cent Indian market indices climbed over 2% on Tuesday, after the US President relaxed some of the tariffs on electronics products, and hinted at a revision of tariffs on automobiles. Trump has upended global markets, but India has emerged as the first stock market in the world to recover from the losses induced by the reciprocal tariff chaos. Reflecting the rally, the 30-share BSE Sensex soared 2.10% and the NSE Nifty surged 2.19%. leaders Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey as accused in its chargesheet.Sources said the other accused include Young Indian, Dotex Merchandise Pvt Ltd and Sunil Bhandari. Special judge Vishal Gogne examined the chargesheet, which was filed on April 9, on the point of cognisance and posted the matter for further proceedings on April 25. "The present prosecution complaint shall next be taken up for consideration on the aspect of cognisance before this court on April 25, 2025 when the special counsel for the ED and IO shall also ensure the production of the case diaries for perusal by the court," the judge said. "Let the complaint be checked and registered. The Ahlmad (court staff) shall ensure that the entire file/documents are properly paginated. The ED is directed to file a soft copy of the complaint and documents in readable/OCR format by the next date," the judge said. The ED investigation began in 2021 after a metropolitan magistrate in Patiala House courts in Delhi took cognisance of a private complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on June 26, 2014. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday recorded the statement of Robert Vadra, businessman and brother-in-law of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, for about five hours in a 2008 Haryana land deal-linked money laundering case, official sources said. He has been asked to depose again on Wednesday for continuing the grilling session, the sources said. 4Continued on | P8 With disturbance over protests against the amended Waqf law spreading in West Bengal, the Union home ministry is closely monitoring activities in sensitive border districts as an initial probe into the Murshidabad violence indicated the involvement of "Bangladeshi" miscreants. The preliminary findings also suggested that the miscreants might have initially received assistance from local Trinamool Congresss leaders who later lost control over these elements. According to government sources, the ministry has been apprised of the findings. Union home secretary Govind Mohan is in constant touch with West Bengal's chief secretary and the director general of police, assuring them of all possible help from the Centre to restore peace in the violence-hit areas. The rates of fertiliser have been increased in Madhya Pradesh. NPK rate has been increased by Rs 250 per 50kg bag. DAP, which is imported from Morocco, is not available. Farmers are advised to replace diammonium phosphate (DAP) in wheat and use alternative fertiliser containing phosphorus. NPK rate which was Rs 1,470, has DC Vs RR NEW DELHI; 7.30 PM (DETAIL ON SPORTS PAGE) N Chithra E-paper Cabinet nod to MP Kisan Kalyan Mission Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL CHENNAI In a significant political move aimed at redefining CentreState relations and reinforcing federal principles, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday announced the formation of a three-member highlevel committee to recommend steps to strengthen the autonomy of States. Making a suo motu statement under Rule 110 in the Legislative Assembly, Stalin emphasised that the time had come to revisit the constitutional framework guiding Indian federalism. The committee will be chaired by Justice Kurian Joseph, retired judge of the Supreme Court. The other members are K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, retired IAS officer and former Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University, and M. Naganathan, former vice-chairman of the State Planning Commission. NPK to cost Rs 250 more for every 50kg bag in state Retail inflation dips to 3.34% MATCH NO. 32 Stalin forms panel to push for more autonomy ‘B’desh link to Bengal violence’ and Manish Tejwani of Ujjain and Jitu Raghuvangshi, Sachin Our Staff Reporter Today in IPL MUMBAI Cinema Trouble for Divyanka-Vivek? P.12 4Continued on | P8 BHOPAL Amid concerns over Saudi Arabia reportedly "cutting" India's private Haj quota this year, the government on Tuesday said the Combined Haj Group Operators had failed to comply with the necessary timelines set by the Saudi authorities despite reminders. The government also said that due to its intervention, the Saudi Haj Ministry has agreed to re-open the Haj Portal for the CHGOs to complete their work in respect of 10,000 pilgrims. NASHIK Edit Choksi must be tried in India P.6 Indore (Assembly segment 3) MLA Golu Shukla’s son, Rudraksh Shukla, and four others surrendered at Dewas City Kotwali poice station on Tuesday at around 8.40 pm after they were booked for forcibly entering the famous Mata Tekri temple in Dewas after it had closed. Cases had been registered FP News Service DEWAS PTI Haj portal: Govt nudge BHOPAL against Rudraksh and nine others at the Kotwali police station late on Monday night following statement by the temple priest and CCTV footage showing them entering the temple. The video of the incident had gone viral in the social media. ASP Jaiveer Singh Bhadoria said they have arrested Aman, Lokesh, Manish, Aniruddha and Rudraksh. Others who were booked included Aman Shukla, Anirudha Singh Pawar, both from Indore, Lokesh Chandwani NEW DELHI NEW DELHI PUNE To ensure all-round development of farmers and focusing on GYAN mantra of PM Narendra Modi, the cabinet gave in principle approval for Madhya Pradesh Kisan Kalyan Mission on Tuesday. The aim of the mission is to increase income of farmers, encourage farmers to grow climatefriendly crops, conservation of bio-diversity and traditional agriculture knowledge, ensure nutrition and food security, and provide adequate price to farmers’ produce. Under the mission, farmer welfare-oriented schemes being run by farmer welfare and agriculture development department, horticulture, food processing department, fisheries department, animal husbandry department, cooperative department, civil supplies and consumer protection department will be brought on one platform. Notably, the contribution of agriculture sector in state GDP is 39%. The agriculture produc- RS 383.22 CR SANCTIONED The cabinet sanctioned Rs 383.22 crore for the construction of a new hospital affiliated with Satna Medical College. Meanwhile, it also approved creation of 12 posts in the hospital affiliated with Gandhi Medical College. These posts are related to departments of paediatric, cardiology, neurology etc. Three posts of professor, three posts of co-professor, three posts of assistant professor and three posts of senior residents have been sanctioned. tivity (kg per hectare) in year 2002-2003 was 1,195 which increased to 2,393 in year 2024. This is 200 per cent growth. The crop production was 224 lakh metric ton in 2002-03 and it increased to 723 MT and its growth is 323 per cent. The mission vouches to cover 26k villages under milk collection. The milk collection and processing capacity will be increased to 50 lakh litres per Indore MLA’s son, four others surrender Govt submits cut-off Forcibly entered marks in sealed Mata Tekri temple envelope to HC NEW DELHI Retail inflation dipped marginally to a nearly sixyear low of 3.34 per cent in March due to decline in prices of vegetables, eggs and protein-rich items, raising hope for a third rate cut by the RBI as it remains below the median target of 4 per cent. UJJAIN 4Continued on | P8 and Prashant of Dewas. ASP Bhadoria said the Rudraksha and other had come to the temple in a fleet of SUV and a case of rash driving was registered against them on April 13. The CCTV footage was examined during the investigation, and statements of the complaint and others were recorded, the official said, adding that the police had seized four out of seven vehicles were seized. In-charge ADM Bihari Singh and tehsildar Nidhri Rajput were at the temple till late in the evening. NEW RATES Fertilisers been increased to Rs 1,720 (per 50kg bags). Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) state president Kamal Anjana protested the hike in rates. The rates were finalised in a coordination committee meeting for fertilisers. Due to its high phosphorus content, farmers prefer to use DAP for wheat crop. new rate (50kg) DAP Rs 1350 TSP Rs 1300 NPK(12:32:16) Rs 1720 NPK(10:26:26) Rs 1700 NPK(10:20:13) Rs 1250 NPK(15:15:15) Rs 1450 NPK(28:28:0) Rs 1700 Ammonium Rs1300 phosphate NPK(16:16:16) Rs 1475 NPK(14:28:28) Rs 1650 Potash Rs 1535 Cost of Rs 15,000 to be slapped on govt if it doesn’t file reply in 2 weeks Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL A cost of Rs 15,000 will be slapped on the state government if it doesn’t file its reply over the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC)-2025 within two weeks, the principal seat of the High Court at Jabalpur said on Tuesday. In compliance with the High Court order, the cut-off marks for the MPPSC were submitted in a sealed envelope. However, the court found that there were no confidential documents in it and made it public. A copy was ordered to be provided to the petitioners' lawyer. During the last hearing of the case in March, the division bench,comprising Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Jain, imposed an interim stay on the conduct of Family stages protest with body outside autopsy room FP News Service MORENA A youth was shot dead and two others injured after a dispute broke between Jatav and Gurjar communities during an Ambedkar Jayanti rally in Morena, late on Monday night. The dispute started over an argument about loud DJ music being played during the rally. Civil Line police have booked ten persons and three of them have been arrested. According to reports, the incident happened at Hingona Khurd village in Morena. People from the Jatav community were taking out a rally on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. They were playing DJ music as part of the celebration. However, members of the Gurjar community objected to the loud music. A birthday party was on at a Gurjar family's house, and they asked the rally group to turn down the music.  This led to a heated argument between the two groups. Around 11 pm, the situation turned violent. It is alleged that some youths from the Gurjar community started firing. One man, Sanjay Pippal, was shot and died on the spot. Another man, Ranu Dauneriya, was seriously injured with a gunshot in his right arm. He was first taken to the district hospital in Morena, and later referred to Gwalior for better treatment. A third person was also injured. 4Continued on | P8 Above-normal rainfall likely this monsoon PTI India is expected to get above-normal rainfall in the upcoming southwest monsoon season, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday, raising hopes for a bountiful harvest for the largely agri-based economy. According to the longrange monsoon forecast, the IMD said large parts of Tamil Nadu and the northeastern 4Continued on | P8 Drugs, marijuana worth Rs 150 cr incinerated Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL the main examinations. The MPPSC was directed to release the category-wise cut-off marks of the preliminary examination within two weeks. The High Court had also asked the MPPSC to clarify how many talented candidates from the reserved category were selected in the unreserved category.  Senior advocates Rameshwar Singh Thakur and Vinayak Prasad Shah, while arguing on behalf of the petitioner Sunil Yadav, a Bhopal resident, said the MPPSC had declared the preliminary examination result on March 5, 2025, for recruitment to 158 posts. However, unlike the previous years, category-wise cut-off marks were not released. Bypassing various decisions of the Supreme Court and the High Court, the Commission is not selecting talented candidates of the reserved category against unreserved posts. Drugs and marijuana seized in 74 cases including cases of the last 26 years was incinerated at Damoh on Tuesday. The total worth of the destroyed contraband is estimated to be over Rs 150 crore, police officials said. Nodal officer of the operation, additional DCP Shailendra Singh Chauhan said the drugs and other contraband was destroyed in fire as per rules and regulations at Hiedelburg Cement India Narsinggarh in Damoh on Tuesday under the supervision of senior officials which included DCP Zone-4 Jitendra Singh Pawar, DCP Sanjay Agarwal and junior scientific officer MP Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) Sunita Jhore. The contraband destroyed included 596 kilogram of marijuana seized in 62 cases. Charas around 50 kilogram seized in five cases, Brown sugar-0.02429 kilogram seized in four cases, 0.092 kilogram of MD drugs seized in 1 case, avil injections seized in one case, smack and 15,312 sedative syrups. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 MPPSC-2025 PRELIMS Youth shot dead at Ambedkar Jayanti rally China suspends offgrid NEW DELHI day. It also aims to bring down the number of stray cattle by ushering domestic alternative of stall feeding and mineral mixture. Under the mission, climate- friendly crops will be developed. Along with farming, animal husbandry and fishery will be encouraged. The area of horticulture will be brought to national level. Apart from this, the mission aims to increase investment in agriculture sector till 75%, to make state free from stubble burning, to increase crop insurance coverage till 50%, expansion of marketing network, to increase reach till mandis situated outside the state, etc. region were likely to get below-normal rainfall, while the rain-deficient parts of Marathwada and adjoining Telangana are expected to witness above-normal showers. "India is likely to see above-normal rainfall in the four-month monsoon season (June to September), with cumulative rainfall estimated at 105 per cent (with a model error of 5 per cent) of the long-period average of 87 cm," M Ravichandran, secre- tary in the Earth Sciences Ministry, told a press conference here. The southwest monsoon lasts from June 1 to September 30. He said that of all the global factors that influence monsoon rainfall over India, two will have a neutral impact, and one will have a positive impact on rainfall this year. "There is a 30 per cent chance of normal rainfall, a 33 per cent chance of abovenormal rainfall, and a 26 per cent chance of excess precipitation during the monsoon season," IMD Director General Mrityunjay Mohapatra said. 4Continued on | P8 purchase of over 150 Boeing jets TARIFF WAR Agencies BEIJING China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets in response to 145% US tariffs on Chinese goods, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The move ironically comes just weeks after the Chinese Commerce Minister met with Boeing authorites seeking greater cooperation in the expanding aviation sector. On March China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with President of Boeing Global Brendan Nelson and called on the planemaker to deepen cooperation with China's aviation industry, Retuers news agency reported the commerce ministry as saying in a statement. It quoted Wang as telling nelson that China hoped Boeing would play a positive role in maintaining the stability and health of the global aviation industry ecosystem while also contributing to the development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations. Shares of Boeing, which looks at China as one of its biggest growth markets and where rival Airbus  holds a dominant position, were down 3% in premarket trading. Airbus shares were up.  The global aerospace industry is in the middle of a fullblown tariff war, with planemakers, airlines and suppliers reviewing contracts worth billions of dollars, after U.S. supplier Howmet Aerospace  ignited an debate over who should bear the cost of the tariffs, Reuters reports. 4Continued on | P8