All 3 assailants shifted to Pratapgarh District Jail

Police had intel that suggested 3 were under threat of attack

First India Bureau

Prayagraj: Lavlesh Tiwari, Sunny Singh, and Arun Maurya, 3 who shot and killed gangster

Atiq Ahmed and his brother, were shifted from Naini (Prayagraj)

Central Jail to Pratapgarh District Jail on Monday. Police had intel that suggested that 3 were under threat of attack behind bars in Naini jail. All three will be kept separately from other prisoners, special monitoring will be done by officials. More on P6

POLICE FORMS 3-MEMBER SIT TO PROBE MURDER; TEAM TO BE HEADED BY ADGP

Lucknow: UP Police has formed a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe killing of gangsterturned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, a senior official said on Monday. In order to ensure qualitative probe and time-bound action, a 3-member team of supervisors has also been formed.

PLEA IN TOP COURT FOR INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE PROBE INTO THE 2 KILLINGS

New Delhi: A day after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot dead under police escort, a plea was filed in Supreme Court seeking the constitution of an independent expert committee headed by a former apex court judge to probe the killings.

SC SEEKS DELHI POLICE’S

REPLY ON KARAT’S PLEA

The SC on Monday asked the Delhi police to respond to plea in 3 weeks of CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat challenging Delhi HC’s order dismissing a petition against trial court’s refusal to order registration of an FIR against Union Minister Anurag Thakur and his BJP MP Pravesh Verma for their alleged hate speeches.

ASARAM CASE: SC SETS ASIDE

HC ORDER SUMMONING LAMBA

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside an order of the Rajasthan HC by which it had summoned an IPS officer Ajay Lamba for recording his evidence in connection with an appeal filed by self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in a rape case. “We have allowed the appeal and set aside the judgement,” the bench said.

Army jawan arrested in connection with killing of 4 jawans in Bhatinda

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Bhatinda: A soldier was on Monday arrested from the Punjab’s Bathinda Military Station in connection with the recent firing incident in which four army personnel were killed in their sleep, Punjab Police sources said. The

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 The competent legislature is the only constitutional organ which is aware of the above referred considerations.

 Marriage is necessarily a social concept and a sanctity to said institution is attached under respective governing laws and customs as it is given sanctity by law on basis of social acceptance.

 Social acceptance and adherence to societal ethos, common values, shared beliefs across religions, in case of recognition of “socio-legal institution of marriage” is not be confused with majoritarianism.

 Any encroachment on the legislative powers solely reserved for the elected representatives would be against the well-settled principles of ‘separation of powers’ which is held to be a part of the basic structure of the Constitution.

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accused, Army gunner Mohan Desai, confessed to the crime and said he shot his colleagues over personal disputes. “After sustained interrogation, we found that one weapon was stolen and used to kill the jawans. Later, one from Artillery unit was detained during probe,” SSP said.

Arrested jawan confessed to his involvement in stealing an INSAS rifle and killing four of his colleagues to the Police. Initial investigations indicate that this was due to personal enmity.

—Gulneet Khurana, Bathinda SSP