FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 349 | INDORE | TUESDAY | MAY 27, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in World After EU chief call, Trump sets new deadline for import tariff P.10 fp Briefs IMPHAL 13 militants held in Manipur In a series of operations in Manipur, army and other central and state security forces have arrested 13 militants of different outfits and recovered 23 arms, grenades, ammunition and other war-like stores, officials said on Monday. JERUSALEM Israel rejects ceasefire deal Israel has rejected a new proposal aimed at halting its offensive in Gaza and securing the release of 10 more hostages, Israel's stateowned Kan TV reported on Monday. ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE SPORTS RCB eye historic top-two finish as LSG look to spoil party Victim was minor when crime was committed, so action under POCSO Act also taken Our Staff Reporter The Supreme Court has r e c o m mended the elevation of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The recommendation was made during a meeting of the Supreme Court Collegium held on Monday. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva was earlier appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the MP High Court following the retirement of Chief Justice Suresh Kait. 3 advocates made HC judges Three advocates have been made Madhya Pradesh High Court judges. These advocate are Deepak Khot, Amit Seth and Pavan Kumar Dwivedi. Exercise of power conferred by the Constitution, the President of India, after consultation with CJI, has appointed them as High Court judge. BHOPAL NASHIK PTI Amid an uptick in Covid cases in some parts of the country, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr Rajiv Behl Monday said the severity of infections as of now is generally mild and there was no cause for worry. Speaking about new Covid variants being traced, he said genome sequencing of samples in the west and south have shown that the new variants Our Staff Reporter INDORE Director of Dream Olympic Shooting Academy in Silver Oaks Colony Mohsin Khan, his elder brother Imran Khan and their friend Faizan Khan were booked for gang raping their domestic help when she was a minor, police said on Monday. This is the fifth FIR lodged Mohsin Imran against Mohsin so far. Annapurna police station in charge Ajay Nair informed the Free Press that the woman approached the police and lodged a complaint that Mohsin, his brother Imran and friend Faizan gang raped her in 2020. She said she was facing a financial crunch and with the Faizan The senior officers have constituted a team led by Annapurna police station in charge Ajay Nair and some other officers, including cyber experts from the police station, for detailed investigation into the case. The team will investigate every aspect of the case to collect evidence. Mohsin is on police remand till June 1. help of a relative, she got the job of a domestic help in Mohsin’s academy. She said in her complaint that after a few days of her joining, Mohsin started touching her with a bad intention. His brother Imran and their friend Faizan also used to visit the academy, she said.  The victim alleged that the accused had called her to their place on the pretext of preparing food during lockdown. They kept her hostage in their flat for a few days and raped her. She was 17-years-old at that time and was scared of the accused as they had threatened to kill her and her STERN WARNING | People of Pakistan must come forward to choose path of peace and end terrorism, says Modi in Gujarat ROTI OR GOLI, CHOICE IS YOURS: PM TELLS PAK The people of Pakistan should understand that their government and Army are supporting terrorism for their own benefit so they must come forward to end the menace which is ruining their lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. On his first visit to Gujarat after Operation Sindoor, the Centre's military response to the August 22 Pahalgam terror attack, he warned that if the people of Pakistan do not choose the path of peace, they will face the wrath of the Indian Army. "Terrorism is a way of making money for your (Pakistan) government and Army. The PM Narendra Modi in Vadodara on Monday. The family of Indian Army officer Colonel Sofiya Qureshi also seen. people of Pakistan must come forward to end terrorism. Live a happy and peaceful life and have your meal. Otherwise, my bullet is there for you (sukh chain ki zindagi jio, roti khao. Varna meri goli to hai hee)," said the PM in a message to people across the border. "Post-Pahalgam attack, I waited for 15 days hoping Pakistan will take action on terrorism, but it seems it is their bread and butter. On the night mother if she revealed the matter to anyone. The victim was so much harassed by the accused that she planned to end life but dropped the idea on seeing her mother’s condition. Being scared of the accused, she had not lodged an FIR. However, on reading the news about Mohsin in the newspapers, she revealed the matter to her husband and later lodged a complaint with the police. It is noteworthy that on May 20, a student of his shooting academy lodged a complaint of molestation against Mohsin. 4Continued on | P8 Indore’s couple missing in Meghalaya; search on FP News Service IANS SHILLONG of May 9 when Pakistan tried to attack civilians, our military attacked with double force and decimated their air bases," he told the gathering. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 Family members of Colonel Sofiya Qureshi joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadshow in Gujarat's Vadodara on Monday. Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, hailed as one of Vadodara's most distinguished daughters, recently addressed the nation regarding Operation Sindoor. Jaishankar rejects Pak tip-off charge MUMBAI Meghalaya Police continued their hectic search for the second day on Monday to locate a tourist couple from Indore, who have been reported missing for the past more than 24 hours while visiting the state’s Sohra (Cherrapunji), a tourist hotspot, officials said. A senior police official said that 29-year-old Raja Raghuvanshi and his wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, residents of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, who have been touring Meghalaya, went missing from Sohra (Cherrapunji) on Sunday in the East Khasi Hills district. The couple hired a two-wheeler and visited the picturesque Sohra area before their disappearance, the official said. Colonel Sofiya’s family joins PM External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has categorically denied allegations made by the Congress party that India informed Pakistan in advance about military strikes on terror camps during Operation Sindoor. Addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs on Monday, Jaishankar made it clear that the Pakistani side was only informed after the strikes were executed—via a formal communication between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two countries. Sections of media reported, without attribution that Pakistan was alerted by India 30 minutes after the launch of Operation Sindoor “There was no prior communication with Pakistan,” Jai- shankar told the panel, according to sources. “The DGMOs spoke only after the strikes. And only they spoke—no other Indian official communicated with Pakistan.” This statement is a direct rebuttal to the claims made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had questioned whether the Modi government had tipped off Pakistan before the operation. Jaishankar said such accusations were not only “dishonest” but also risked undermining national security interests. Jaishankar further addressed accusations of U.S. involvement in halting the strikes, asserting firmly that there was no foreign mediation. “The cessation of hostilities was a bilateral decision,” he said. 4Continued on | P8 Shah’s statement irks Modi, ADOPT VILLAGES: V-P URGES MPs, & MLAs SC hearing tomorrow FP News Service BHOPAL/NARSINGHPUR Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The statement of minister Vijay Shah on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi after Operation Sindoor has reportedly enraged Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At a meeting with the NDA chief ministers on Sunday, Modi appealed to all party leaders not to make any statements on Operation Sindoor. Modi, however, did not mention anybody’s name in his speech. He advised the party leaders against speaking on every issue. Modi said he had advised the chief ministers and deputy chief ministers to keep away from making unnecessary statements. Shah’s statement sparked anger against the BJP across the country. Modi met the family members of Colonel Qureshi during a rally in Vadodara on Monday. Her family members participated in the rally and hailed the Prime Minister. Modi’s annoyance with Shah may cause trouble for him in the future. The Supreme Court is going to hear Shah’s case on Wednesday. The government will submit a report on the basis of the apex court’s directives. The court directed the government to set up an SIT to probe Shah’s case. 4Continued on | P8 Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has appealed to local MPs and MLAs to adopt villages and help the farmers become farm entrepreneurs. Dhankhar made the statement at the inaugural function of the three-day Agri-Industry Summit-2025 in Narsinghpur on Monday. Besides Dhankhar, Governor Mangubhai Patel and Chief Minister Mohan Yadav were present at the summit. He said India’s firm response to terrorism under Prime Minister Narendra are not severe and are Omicron sub-variants. These are LF.7, XFG, JN.1 and NB. 1.8.1. The first three are more prevalent, Dr Bhel said. "Samples from other places are being sequenced and we will know in a day or two if there are more variants." The ICMR DG said there has been an uptick in cases --first from the south, then west and now from northern India. All these cases are being monitored through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP). Ketan Narottam Tanna MUMBAI Jyoti Malhotra had everything an influencer could dream of— followers in six digits, glossy travel content, a glam wardrobe, and a passport with more stamps than a bureaucrat's file. But while her fans admired her sun-kissed selfies and exotic escapades, it seems someone else had been watching a little too closely—and not from the comments section. The Haryana-based YouTuber now finds herself not in front of the camera, but in custody. And this plot twist has nothing to do with algorithm changes. Jyoti is currently under arrest on suspicion of being a spy Pakistan. Yes, the same country where she was recently spotted strolling through Lahore's legendary Anarkali Bazar, guarded by six hulking men wielding AK-47s. 4Continued on | P8 AP horseplay, but it caused a stir back home. French media on Monday tried to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane. The headline of a story on the website of the daily Le Parisien newspaper asked: "Slap or squabble'? The images of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron disembarking in Vietnam trigger a lot of comment." Macron later told reporters that the couple -married since 2007 after meeting at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher -- were simply joking around. "We are horsing around and, really, joking with my wife," he said, adding that the incident was being overblown: "It becomes a sort of geo-planetary catastrophe." His office earlier offered a similar explanation. "It was a moment where the president and his wife were decompressing one last time before the start of the trip by horsing around. It's a moment of complicity. It was all that was needed to give ammunition to the conspiracy theorists," his office said. 4Continued on | P8 India’s strength. The vice president also laid emphasis on integrating technology with farming. According to Dhankhar, agriculture is the foundation of India’s economy and the basis of the nation’s progress. 4Continued on | P8 HC upholds probationer civil judge’s termination for misbehaviour JABALPUR Did French prez get slapped by wife? PARIS Modi was historic. He cited Operation Sindoor as a firm response to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. The Indian armed forces accurately targeted and destroyed terrorist bases in Pakistan. Dhankhar said the decisive action symbolised New FP News Service offgrid French first lady Brigitte Macron appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture -caught on camera -- as just E-paper Cinema How Akansha's life... P.14 No cause of worry: ICMR Caught on camera: Jyoti had amid uptick in Covid cases armed entourage in Lahore NEW DELHI MUMBAI Edit Disciplining the Lalu scion P.6 TEAM LED BY TI FORMED FOR INVESTIGATION BHUJ BHOPAL PUNE NOW, MOHSIN, 2 OTHERS BOOKED FOR GANG RAPE PTI SC recommends elevation of acting CJ UJJAIN The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld termination of a civil judge junior division on probation period and dismissed his petition challenging termination from services on September 5, 2024 for misbehaviour with advocates, police personnel and the court staff. The court turned down the argument of the petitioner that the decision of the administrative committee and the Full Court was punitive and not simply to discharge him from service. A division bench of Chief Justice SK Kait and Justice Vivek Jain held ‘the petition being devoid of merits, deserved to be and stands dismissed’. ‘The specific language of Rule 11(d), it is clear that for a probationer to seek confirmation, it is necessary that he should have successfully completed the period of probation and found suitable to hold the post’, the court observed. Governor hails CM Patel appreciated Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s efforts to promote farmers’ welfare. He acknowledged the crucial partnership between hard-working farmers and scientists to strengthen India’s food security. Warlike situation outside & inside B’desh: Yunus Agencies DHAKA The HC recommended termination of civil judge junior division Kaustubh Khera who was on probation under provisions of Rule 11(c) of M.P. Judicial Service (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules of 1994 on account of unsuitability for the post. Khera was discharged from the post of Civil Judge, junior division through order dated 05/09/2024 passed by the State Government, Department of Law and Legislative Affairs based upon the recommendations of the Administrative Committee of the HC dated 08.8.2024 that was ratified by the Full Court meeting on 20/08/2024. The head of Bangladesh's interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus said, "A war-like situation emerged both inside and outside the country, preventing us from moving forward, causing everything to collapse, and pushing us back into subservience." This was revealed by Yunus' Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam who quoted Prof Yunus as saying as much on Sunday night at meetings with political parties. Prof Yunus met 20 leaders of different political parties and organisations in two separate sessions at state guest house Jamuna. The talks follow reports that Prof Yunus on Thursday expressed frustrations over some recent developments and expressed his desire to step down. BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and National Citizen Party leaders met separately with Yunus on Saturday. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 Court turned down the argument of the petitioner that decision of the administrative committee and Full Court was punitive