Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
1.) When Kanhaiya Kumar, 30 cops dressed as anti-riot cell personnel to escape lawyers
With lawyers at Patiala House Courts, armed with stones, ready to assault JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, police had to dress him as an anti-riot cell personnel so they could escort him from the courtroom to the lockup on Wednesday. To mislead lawyers, about 30 police officers too dressed up in anti-riot gear, sources told The Indian Express.
Kanhaiya and the police officers dressed like him were then loaded into five police vans stationed outside the court complex. The vans split into two groups: two headed towards India Gate, and three towards Bhagwan Das Road. Kanhaiya was in the first van heading towards Bhagwan Das Road.
2.) Sedition charge against Kanhaiya Kumar based on TV report?
The sedition case against Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar appears to be an afterthought, relying mostly on a TV report. As per a Hindustan Times report, when the station house officer (SHO) of a nearby police station visited the JNU campus on February 9, he saw students at an evening rally commemorating the anniversary of the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri separatist.
Students were accused of shouting anti-India slogans and making incendiary remarks at the event. But the police officer didn’t find anything wrong at the rally that warranted an immediate FIR. He also had a word with his staff and intelligence officers present there. The next day, police filed an FIR after watching a Zee TV report that showed Kumar at the function. They sought clippings from the channel before filing the case.
3.) Won’t pull out from Siachen, says army chief
Unless Pakistan agrees to mark out exact troop positions on the ground, there is no question of demilitarising Siachen, army chief General Dalbir Singh said to Hindustan Times. He also added that the recent death of 10 soldiers in an avalanche has only “hardened the army’ s resolve” to hold onto the strategic ally significant glacier.
Speaking of the February 3 tragedy, Singh said, “They were buried too deep and the ice had become harder than concrete. It couldn’t have been blown up with explosives. We flew in electric ice cutters and radars that can detect heat signatures 20 metres deep. My instructions were clear: rescue ops will continue till we find survivors or the bodies.”
4.) Sharif accepts Kargil `misadventure' was 'stab' in Atal's back
At a time when the Pathankot attack has soured bilateral ties, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday accepted that former Indian PM A B Vajpayee was justified in believing Pakistan's Kargil “misadventure“ in 1999 was a stab in his back.
Pakistani army regulars, in the garb of militants, occupied Kargil heights with the aim to cut off the SrinagarLeh highway in May 1999, months after Sharif and Vajpayee had inked the Lahore Declaration paving the way for normalisation of ties. Sharif had, in the past, put the blame for Kargil on Pervez Musharraf, who as then Pakistani army chief deposed Sharif in a coup the same year.
5.) Pachauri talked dirty, forced kiss, reveal complainant's recordings
The complainant in the sexual harassment case against RK Pachauri, former director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), had provided an elaborate account of her experience in the statement she recorded before a judicial magistrate in February 2015. The Economic Times has seen the statement recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). The statement, which hasn't been made publicly available, was recorded over two days--four hours on day one and five hours on the second day.
Such a statement is recorded under oath before a magistrate and has le gal sanctity. Only the complainant and the magistrate are present at the time. Any retraction is liable to be prosecuted.
6.) BJP to lift AFSPA to end J&K stalemate?
BJP general secretary Ram Madhav met PDP president Mehbooba Mufti at her residence here on Wednesday and, according to sources, conveyed to her the Centre's willingness to lift the contentious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) on a trial basis from Jammu & Kashmir, said a report in The Times of India. Madhav also spoke of handing over two power projects to the state to end the 40-day deadlock over government formation.
The phased revocation of AFSPA and the handing over of the power projects Dulhasti in Kishtwar and Uri in Baramulla were part of the agenda for alliance or the common minimum programme agreed on by PDP and BJP last February . However, Madhav and Mehbooba declined to share the details of the meeting with the media. Mehbooba, sources said, had asked the Centre for the revoca tion of AFSPA from areas where militancy had declined over the past decade.
7.) Lotus Temple back in heritage race?
With Delhi's chance to become the first World Heritage City in India in limbo, efforts are now being made to give the capital a fourth world heritage site in Lotus Temple, said a Times of India report. The proposal to make the Baha'i house of worship a world heritage site was pitched in 2015 by the temple trustees, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India.
They had appointed Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) to prepare the nomination dossiers. The site was included in Unesco's tentative list of world heritage sites in April 2014. The Delhi government has supported the move and the tourism department is eager to pitch in. Delhi currently has three world heritage sites -Red Fort, Qutub Minar and Humayun's Tomb.
8.) Failing to crack JEE, veggie vendor becomes memory coach at IIT
Jaipur-resident Suresh Kumar Sharma, 21, a vegetable vendor, failed to crack IIT-JEE three years ago. But this has not stopped him from becoming the most sought-after memory trainer at IIT-JEE coaching institutes in Jaipur and Kota. A report in The Times of India says Sharma helps enhance memory of teachers, many of whom are IITians, and best performing students.
Sharma, a first year engineering student, achieved the rare distinction of memorising 70,030 digits of the value of Pi before his newfound fame. This got him an entry in the Limca Book of Records recently. It took him 17.30 hours to recall all the values, which is equivalent to remembering 7,000 cell phone numbers. He said his training module helps teachers and students memorise hundreds of chemical reactions, periodic tables, physical and mathematical formulas, paragraphs and points learning.
9.) HC relief for woman who killed lover for refusing sex
Around 10 years after a Navi Mumbai woman, then in her 20s, set her boyfriend on fire for refusing sex, the Bombay high court commuted her life imprisonment to a prison term of 10 years. The youth had died.
Yasmin Shaikh's conviction for the murder of Ali Shaikh was overturned and she was held guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Yasmin, who has been in prison for 10 years, has been ordered to be released. A Times of India report states.
10.) Toddler slapped by teacher for seeking food, loses hearing
A two-and-a-halfyear-old boy lost his hearing after he was allegedly slapped by a teacher for asking for food at his older sibings' school during a midday meal service, said a report in The Times of India. Doctors have confirmed that the minor has suffered “at least partial loss of hearing" after the incident which took place in Mansukhpura in Bah on Wednesday.
The boy, Rajat Singh, had on Wednesday gone to the government school where his three older siblings study .During the midday meal he sought food from teacher Raghuvir Raghuvir, who then slapped the minor as he was “not a part of the school." “My son has lost his hearing ability in one ear. Rajat is yet to enrol in primary school but he wanted to attend classes with his brother and sisters. The slap caused Rajat's ear to bleed," said Rajat's father Shyamvir Singh.
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