FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 302 | BHOPAL | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 16, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Class, Consistency & Champions Trophy - The Triple Crown P.13 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: BHOPAL MONEY ED chargesheets Sonia, Rahul in Herald case PTI The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others on charges of money laundering in the National Herald case. 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 chargesheet also names Congress leader Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey as accused persons. "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. The chargesheet was filed fp Briefs DHAKA Fresh warrant against Hasina under Sections 3 (money laundering) and 4 (punishment for money laundering) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act by ED's special public prosecutor N K Matta. "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 special judge dealing with the cases of lawmakers also noted the submission of the ED, which said it would be moving an application before the district judge for the transfer of the case related to NEW DELHI Retail inflation dips to 3.34% 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. LUCKNOW Ram temple gets threat A series of bomb threat emails sent to multiple district collectorate offices in UP triggered a security alert on Tuesday, prompting building evacuations and extensive searches by bomb squads, officials said. Separately, a case was registered in Ayodhya after a threatening email was sent to the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust on Monday night warning of an attack on the Ram temple. Today in IPL MATCH NO. 32 DC Vs RR NEW DELHI; 7.30 PM (DETAIL ON SPORTS PAGE) PUNE the predicate offence, being probed by the CBI for alleged cheating, criminal conspiracy and other offences, based on which the ED had started its investigation in the present matter, from another court to Judge Gogne's court. The predicate offence is required to be tried by the same court which takes cognisance of the offence under Section 3 PMLA, the jude said, and Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were members of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha respectively. "Essentially, the two offences viz the predicate offence and the PMLA offence are required to be tried by the same court," the judge said. Since the allegations in the present complaint were arising from the predicate offence, the file in the predicate offence were required to be called for perusal, the court added. 4Continued on | P8 Vadra questioned by ED in Haryana land deal case PTI NEW DELHI The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday questioned Robert Vadra, businessman and brother-inlaw of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a Haryana land deal-linked money laundering case, official sources said. Terming the agency's move to summon him as "political vendetta", Vadra said he has spent hours with the ED earlier during questioning, shared thousands of pages but still the agency has been raking up cases against him. 4Continued on | P8 INDORE NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Choksi must be tried in India P.6 Cinema Trouble for Divyanka-Vivek? P.12 Top court to hear pleas against Waqf Act today NEW DELHI Cabinet nod to MP Kisan Kalyan Mission Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The Supreme Court would likely hear on Wednesday a batch of petitions, including the one of AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, against the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan, so far, listed 10 petitions on the issue. In addition to Owaisi's plea, the court listed for hearing the petitions filed by AAP leader Amanatullah Khan, Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, Arshad Madani, Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema, Anjum Kadari, Taiyyab Khan Salmani, Mohammad Shafi, Mohammed Fazlurrahim and RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha. Several fresh pleas, which are yet to be listed, were filed in the top court subsequently including the ones filed by TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Zia-ur-Rahman Barq. 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 FP News Service DEWAS A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday issued fresh arrest warrants against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wajed and 16 others in two cases related to alleged irregularities in allocating residential plots on the outskirts of the capital. "Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's court issued the warrants in two cases over the irregularities in acquiring plots in Purbachal New Town, taking into consideration the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) chargesheets," a court official said. PRESS Not activating countercyclical capital buffer: Reserve Bank MORE TROUBLE FOR CONGRESS | Probe agency also names party leader Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey as accused NEW DELHI UJJAIN 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 China suspends deliveries of Boeing jets Agencies BEIJING had closed. Cases had been registered 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, Ani- NPK to cost Rs 250 more for every 50kg bag in state Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing jets, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. This comes amid the faceoff between the United States and China following the Donald Trump administration's imposition of 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods, with Beijing hitting back with retaliatory tariffs. Beijing has also asked that Chinese carriers halt any purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US companies, sources were quoted as saying in the Bloomberg report. According to the global aerospace company, Boeing airplanes have been the mainstay of China's civil aviation passenger and cargo transportation systems for more than 50 years. Boeing is the largest customer of China's aviation manufacturing industry, with more than 10,000 Boeing airplanes flying with China-made parts. 4Continued on | P8 rudha Singh Pawar, both from Indore, Lokesh Chandwani and Manish Tejwani of Ujjain and Jitu Raghuvangshi, Sachin 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. 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 been increased to Rs 1,720 (per 50kg bags). Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) state president Kamal Anjana protested the hike in fertiliser rates. The rates were finalised in a coordination committee meeting for fertilisers. Due to its high phosphorus content, farmers prefer to apply more DAP to wheat crops. But now there are many fertilisers other than DAP which are used as alternative sources of phosphorus. NEW RATES Fertilisers 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 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 Stalin announces Family stages high level panel on protest with body outside state autonomy autopsy room 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 PTI CHENNAI Making a strong pitch for empowering states, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday alleged that their rights were gradually being snatched by the Centre, and announced the constitution of a panel under on state autonomy that will be headed by a retired Supreme Court judge. The establishment of the high-level panel, marking halfa-century of DMK government's 'historic' state autonomy resolution moved in the Tamil Nadu Assembly by then Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, was aimed at re-asserting the principles of state autonomy in today's context, he said while making a statement in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. The move was meant to protect the 'legitimate rights' of states and to improve relations between the Union and the state governments, he claimed in the Assembly. He utilised the occasion to flay the present AIADMK leadership, after the party MLAs staged a walkout over a different issue. Despite their differences with the DMK, AIADMK stalwarts and late Chief Ministers M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa never compromised on state rights. "But now they (AIADMK) say that principles and alliance are different...the question is what is their stand," Stalin asked, apparently referring to the opposition party stitching up an alliance with the BJP recently. 4Continued on | P8