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RHEA BREATHES FRESH AFTER MONTH IN JAIL
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RING FOR RAM IN AYODHYA
BAIL GRANTED: “She (Rhea Chakraborty) is not part of the chain of drug dealers. She has not forwarded the drugs allegedly procured by her to somebody else to earn monetary or other benefits,” says Bombay HC
Mumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty left Mumbai’s Byculla prison this evening after being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 28 days after her arrest on drugs-related charges in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Her brother Showik has been denied bail. The actor, hounded by the media in the past, left in a car with its windows covered with newspapers. It drove through a huge crowd of reporters, cameramen, policemen and others gathered outside the jail. The Mumbai Police had warned the media against “chasing celebrities and others” and “endangering lives” shortly after the actor’s bail. Turn on P6
DON’T AGREE CELEBS SHOULD BE TREATED HARSHLY: JUDGE The judge disagreed that celebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example for the young generation and they do not get encouraged to commit such offences. “I do not agree. Everybody is equal before law. No celebrity or role model enjoys any special privilege before the Court of law. Similarly, such person also does not incur any special liability when he faces law in the Courts. Each case will have to be decided on its own merits.
SUSHANT’S FAMILY WRITES TO CBI, SLAMS AIIMS PANEL
CONDITIONS FOR THE BAIL Report every day for 10 days to Mumbai police FURNISH BAIL BOND `1 LAKH Deposit passport, cannot leave country or
Mumbai without permission CANNOT MEET WITH ANY OTHER WITNESSES
Days after a team of doctors from Delhi’s AIIMS said that actor Sushant Singh Rajput was not murdered and that it is a case of suicide, his family has written to the CBI chief, seeking the formation of a fresh medical board to review the autopsy and viscera reports by a Mumbai hospital. The family, through its lawyers, has also accused AIIMS panel of being “unprofessional” and has threatened to approach court.
SC ON SHAHEEN BAGH
TWO DECADES IN OFFICE, Public spaces can’t be occupied indefinitely A WINNER ALL THE WAY! In yet another political
New Delhi: Disposing a clutch of petitions in connection with the Shaheen Bagh sit-in protest, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that public places cannot be occupied indefinitely and protests must be allowed only in designated areas. The apex court observed it is the duty of the administration to remove such road blockades. Unfortunately no action by administration and hence court’s intervention in the matter, it said. A bench comprising Justices SK Kaul, Krishna Murari and Hrishikesh Roy said: “Public places cannot be occupied indefinitely. Dis-
sent and democracy go hand in hand but protests must be carried out in designated area… Such kind of occupation of public place for protests is not acceptable.” On September 21, the bench reserved its verdict after observing that the right to protest has to be balanced with the right of the people to use a public road. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that though Right to Turn on P6
Guinness World Record title holder Rajlakshmi Manda rings a bell weighing 613 kg, meant for Ram Temple, after it arrived from Rameswaram by road, in Ayodhya on Wednesday.
Chemistry Queens!
US-French duo win Nobel Prize for gene editing tool
Modi took charge
milestone for Narendra Modi, the prime minister on Wednesday as he entered his 20th year in a public office without a break
as Gujarat chief minister on October 7, 2001 soon after the devastating earthquake which had rocked Bhuj
PM Modi was appointed as chief minister of Gujarat by the BJP when the saffron party was battling infighting among its own leaders. It would not be wrong to say that PM Modi used his 3 terms as Gujarat CM to strengthen the party and helped the BJP end the stronghold of Congress party at the Centre
oath as Gujarat CM for the second time and he became the CM in 2012 for the third time in a row. In 2014, Modi took oath as Prime Minister after BJP won Lok Sabha poll with majority. In 2019, PM Modi led BJP to a thumping victory to take oath as prime minister for the second time
In 2007, Modi took
Amit Shah @AmitShah Inspired by the thoughts, vision and charismatic personality of Prime Minister Modi, every Indian today is working towards re-establishing India as a ‘Vishwa Guru’. It is a matter of great pride for me to work for the welfare of the nation under his extraordinary leadership and guidance
Journalist, 3 others on way to Hathras slapped
with UAPA, sedition
The FIR blames them for attempting to incite riots and fuelling caste violence for which they were collecting donations Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for “development of a method for genome editing”. “Emmanuelle and Jennifer have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors,” the Academy said. “Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants, and microorganisms with Turn on P6
Mathura: A journalist and three others on way to Hathras and arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police earlier this week have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and sedition, according to an FIR registered in Mathura on Wednesday. The four, who had been arrested in Mathura on Monday, had been placed under preventive detention but an FIR was registered against them in the Mant police station of Mathura on Wednesday and subsequently they were presented before a court.
These four include Atiq-ur- Rehman from Muzaffar Nagar, Siddiq from Malappuram (Kerala), Masood from Bahraich and Alam from Rampur. Siddiq is a journalist. They were arrested on Monday night after a laptop and some objectionable literature relating to ‘Justice for Hathras Victim’ was allegedly recovered from their possession while they were en route to Hathras. Meanwhile, CM Yogi Adityanath said that the Oppsition is doing politics on ‘dead bodies of poor’. Will deal with them with ‘heavy hand’. Turn on P6
FIR AGAINST PILOT MEDIA ADVISOR AND ONE JOURNALIST
Will investigation reach Pilot’s doorstep? Aditi Nagar GUPTESHWAR LEFT IN LURCH
Seat sharing between JDU and BJP has created a hurdle for top copturned-politician ‘Robin Hood’ Gupteshwar Pandey’s electoral plunge post taking VRS. Buxar is Pandey’s hometown and it has gone to BJP in the deal. Pandey, who came to limelight with Sushant case, is now sprinting towards BJP hoping to grap a ticket.
Jaipur: In a new twist in Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot relationship, a serious development has taken place during the last 24 hours, when at the insistence of Jaipur Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava, Jaipur’s Vidhayakpuri police registered a criminal FIR against Pilot’s media advisor Lokendra Singh and the Rajasthan Editor of a leading national
news channel ‘Aaj Tak’ Sharat Kumar in a recent phone tapping case. The case has been registered under sections 505 (1) (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report), 505 (2) (statements creating or promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and section 76 of the IT Act. Both the accused jour-
Ashok Gehlot
Sachin Pilot
nalists have been asked to appear before the police for interrogation this morning. Now, the Pilot camp has gone ex-
tremely upset with the possibility of naming Pilot himself by his own media advisor Lokendra, because the list of all
these mobile numbers was believed to be handed over by Pilot himself to his media advisor for circulation in media. The main point of concern is that if during the course of interrogation, media advisor Lokendra names Pilot, then what will happen? According to legal experts, this might lead the entire investigation to Pilot’s door-step. Therefore after guessing this possibility, a concerned
or worried Pilot came into action in support of his media advisor and Aaj Tak Rajasthan Editor and reportedly sent a clear ‘message’ to Rahul Gandhi and the members of three-member committee ie Ahmed Patel, Ajay Maken and KC Venugopal saying that it is a clear violation of a two-month-old ‘ceasefire’ which was done under the instructions and direct supervision of Priyanka Gandhi. Turn on P8
EX-CBI CHIEF ENDS LIFE
Former Governor of Manipur and Nagaland, and ex-CBI Director Ashwani Kumar was found dead at his residence in Shimla on Wednesday, Mohit Chawla, SP Shimla told news agency ANI. Kumar was the Director General of Police, Himachal Pradesh, before being appointed the director of CBI from August 2008 to November 2010.