NEARBY AAP sweeps Delhi with 62 seats, BJP trounced€¦ · Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party...
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TRUMP SHOW PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 U.S. President Donald Trump will visit India on Fe- bruary 24 and 25, as per an official announcement from the White House on Monday. Mr. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will visit New Delhi and Ahmedabad. The White House said Ah- medabad was chosen for the visit as Gujarat was home to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and played an “impor- tant role” in Mahatma Gand- hi’s life. “The President and The First Lady will travel to New Delhi and Ahmedabad, which is in Prime Minister Modi’s home State of Gujarat and played such an impor- tant role in Mahatma Gand- hi’s life and leadership of the Indian independence move- ment,” a statement from the Office of the Press Secretary said. Confirming the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs in statement on Tuesday said, “During the visit, Presi- dent Trump and the First La- dy will attend official en- gagements in New Delhi and Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and interact with a wide cross section of Indian society.” Prime Minister Modi and Mr. Trump had spoken over the weekend, the White House said. U.S. President Trump confirms India visit on February 24, 25 He and wife Melania will travel to Ahmedabad and Delhi Sriram Lakshman Washington Donald Trump Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were vot- ed back to power with a mas- sive mandate in the Delhi As- sembly election as the party won 62 seats in the 70-mem- ber House. The party dropped just five seats and less than a per- centage point in vote share from its stellar 2015 showing. Despite a hard-fought and bitter campaign that saw big guns, including Prime Minis- ter Narendra Modi and Un- ion Home Minister Amit Shah address rallies, the BJP managed to win only eight seats, up five from its 2015 tally. The Congress, yet again, failed to open its ac- count — the party’s candi- dates looked set to forfeit their deposits on 63 of the 66 seats contested. Speaking after the victory, Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- wal said, “The people of Del- hi have given birth to a new kind of politics — the politics of work. This is a vote for those who build schools, who provide electricity and healthcare. This augurs well for the country.” Ministers post wins The AAP secured 53.57 % of the vote share, while the BJP got 38.5% and the Congress 4.3%. Though three of the AAP’s incumbent Ministers — Manish Sisodia, Kailash Gah- lot and Satyendar Jain — were trailing after the first few rounds of counting, they went on to retain their seats. Raghav Chadha, Atishi Marlena and Dilip Pandey from the AAP, who lost in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, strode into the Assembly. On the other hand, former AAP Minister Kapil Mishra, who left the party and fought on a BJP ticket, was defeated. Anil Bajpai, also a former AAP legislator, however, re- tained his Gandhi Nagar seat. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Ti- wari, while accepting res- ponsibility for the dismal performance, argued that the party had been able to in- crease its vote share. “I con- gratulate Arvind Kejriwal... In comparison to 2015, the BJP’s vote share has regis- tered an increase, which is the result of the hard work put in by its workers... these results also seem to herald the dawn of a new political era in the city, which has be- come bipolar instead of triangular,” he said. AAP sweeps Delhi with 62 seats, BJP trounced Jaideep Deo Bhanj Jatin Anand NEW DELHI ■ BJP wins 8 seats, 5 more than 2015, with 38.5 % vote share ■ AAP gets 53.6%, marginally below its 54.2% share in 2015 ■ Congress candidates likely to lose deposits in 63 seats WINNING FORMULA EDITORIAL CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CM YK M ND-NDE wednesday, february 12, 2020 Delhi City Edition 22 pages ₹ 10.00 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna follow us: thehindu.com facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu CBI gives clean chit to Rakesh Asthana NEW DELHI The CBI on Tuesday filed a chargesheet in a case of alleged bribery against its former second-in-command Rakesh Asthana and others, giving a clean chit to him and another official. “The investigation has not revealed any role of public servants,” said a CBI official. NEWS PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD NEARBY Supreme Court to hear Omar sister’s plea today NEW DELHI A petition filed by Sara Abdullah Pilot, the sister of former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, will be heard by a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice N.V. Ramana, on February 12. She has approached the court against the government’s move to charge him under the Public Safety Act. NEWS PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Kafeel Khan released from Mathura jail on bail GHAZIABAD Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician who was arrested on January 29 from Mumbai for making an inflammatory speech at Aligarh Muslim Unversity against the CAA, was released from Mathura jail on Tuesday after being granted bail by an Aligarh court. NORTH PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HC seeks Centre’s reply on Jamia violence plea NEW DELHI The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response on a petition seeking a court-monitored probe by a committee into the police crackdown at Jamia Millia Islamia on December 15 last year. CITY PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Congratulating Arvind Kejriwal for his resounding victory, Opposition parties said the BJP’s defeat showed that politics of polarisation didn’t pay dividends. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, in a tweet, said, “Leaders playing on faith through hate speech and divisive politics should take a cue, as only those who deliver on their promises are rewarded.” page 13 ‘A referendum on BJP politics’ The Delhi Assembly election results could provide a reason for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to smile, say political analysts. The BJP-led NDA’s crushing defeat at the hands of the AAP would now embolden the Janata Dal (United) chief to drive a harder bargain for seats with the BJP, in the upcoming Assembly election in the State, they say. page 13 Nitish gets a reason to smile Aam Aadmi Party legislator and Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Harpal Cheema on Tuesday said the party’s victory in Delhi was a clear message that politics of hatred is not accepted by people as they have voted for development. AAP, he said, would replicate the Delhi model in Punjab in the 2022 Assembly election. page 2 Politics of hatred rejected The BJP’s sixth consecutive loss in an Assembly poll — although the party managed to form a government in Haryana — points to a very real problem for the party. The State-level narrative of the party has not been as appealing as that of PM Modi at the national level, so much so that even Mr. Modi’s campaign did not manage to lift the party’s fortunes. page 13 Lack of local narrative The Supreme Court on Tues- day allowed the Union go- vernment to approach the trial court for issuance of a fresh date for the execution of the death sentence of the Nirbhaya gang rape convicts. Appearing before a three- judge Bench led by Justice R. Banumathi, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the Nirb- haya convicts were trying the patience of the nation. Mr. Mehta made a chilling reference to how policemen who gunned down the four gang rape and murder ac- cused in Hyderabad were cheered by people, calling the incident a symptom of people losing faith in the process of law. “This case [Nirbhaya] is of 2012 and I am still struggling to execute the death sen- tence. They [convicts] are acting in tandem to misuse the law by filing one petition after the other… People will stop having faith in the judi- cial system. Seven years have gone by and the convicts are still playing the judicial sys- tem… It is in situations like this that people celebrate en- counter killings,” Mr. Mehta submitted. The Solicitor General said convicts Mukesh, Vinay and Akshay have seemingly ex- hausted remedies. The fourth, Pawan Gupta, is yet to file a mercy petition. Fresh plea Mr. Mehta said a plea to fix a new date for the executions in the trial court would im- mediately see one or the oth- er of the four convicts move court in a bid to further pro- long the process. As indicated, within a few hours of the hearing, Vinay moved the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the President. Mr. Mehta stressed that the Supreme court should in- stead focus on the govern- ment’s appeal to allow the four convicts to be separate- ly executed. The court issued notice to the four convicts on this point and scheduled a hearing for February 13. Solicitor General calls for separate executions of Nirbhaya case convicts Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI Steel will: The parents of the Nirbhaya rape case victim outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi in December. * PTI A Delhi court on Tuesday sought the response of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case after a petition was filed by the victim’s parents and the Delhi government seeking issuance of fresh death warrant. PTI Victim’s kin move court Babulal Marandi’s JVM(P) to merge with BJP on February 17 page 12 Coronavirus toll in China crosses 1,000, as WHO sees ‘grave threat’ page 14 The economy is not in trouble, says Nirmala Sitharaman page 16 de Grandhomme, Guptill and Nicholls help NZ whitewash India page 19 OPPORTUNITIES PAGE 15 ELECTORAL DICHOTOMY DATA POINT Students of Gargi College staged a strike and boycotted classes for the second con- secutive day on Tuesday in protest against the February 6 incident when they were al- legedly harassed and sexual- ly assaulted on campus dur- ing a college festival. Several students and teachers from different de- partments held a meeting to constitute a fact-finding com- mittee. Ashna, a final-year student, said, “A general bo- dy meeting [of students and teachers] was held to consti- tute a committee which wou- ld investigate the events that happened during the fest.” Gargi College students boycott classes Staff Reporter New Delhi DETAILS ON PAGE 3 All sitting Ministers in Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) go- vernment as well as the Speaker of the Legislative As- sembly retained their seats in the Assembly election. And all of them, except the Chief Minister and the Depu- ty Chief Minister, also re- corded a rise in their vote share compared with the previous election. Some Ministers, including Manish Sisodia, Kailash Geh- lot, Satyendra Jain, and Speaker Ram Niwas Goel emerged victorious in tight contests — all of them win- ning with a margin of less than 10,000 votes. Others, including Arvind Kejriwal, Gopal Rai, Rajendra Pal Gau- tam and Imran Hussain, won their seats with comfortable margins of more than at least 20,000 votes. Chief Minister Kejriwal, who won by mar- gin of 21,697 votes, saw a drop of 3.04 percentage points in vote share. Scare for Sisodia Deputy Chief Minister Siso- dia, who encountered the largest drop in vote share of 4.31 percentage points from 2015, won after a neck-and- neck battle with the BJP’s Ra- vinder Singh Negi in the Pat- parganj constituency. Mr. Si- sodia, who had won by a margin of 28,791 votes in 2015, looked to be losing the seat as Mr. Negi maintained a lead in the first 10 rounds of counting. However, once he overtook his rival in round 11 in the afternoon, he man- aged to hold on and won by a margin of 3,207 votes. Similarly, Speaker Goel trailed in the first 11 rounds of counting in the Shahdra constituency before the trend reversed and he man- aged to win by a margin of 5,294 votes. Health Minister Satyendra Jain more than doubled his margin of victory, retaining the Shakur Basti constituen- cy with a margin of 7,592 votes over the BJP’s candi- date S.C. Vats. Transport Minister Geh- lot, who won from the Najaf- garh constituency, was the biggest gainer in terms of vote share, improving on his previous victory by 15.6 per- centage points. In Seemapuri, Minister of Tourism Rajendra Pal Gau- tam won by the largest vote margin among all ministers — at 56,108 and a 2.78 per- centage point increase in vote share. In Balimaran, Mi- nister of Food and Civil Sup- plies Imran Hussain won by a margin of 36,172.Minister of Labour Gopal Rai won the Babarpur seat by a margin of 33,062. All AAP Ministers sans CM and his deputy see rise in vote share Speaker, too, emerged victorious STAFF REPORTER New Delhi Ram Niwas Goel CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Government can seek fresh execution dates, says SC A special court here on Tuesday sentenced Brajesh Thakur and 11 others, includ- ing three women, to life im- prisonment for the sexual and physical assault of girl inmates of a shelter home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Additional sessions judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha also imposed a fine of ₹32 lakh on Thakur. Six others were sen- tenced up to seven years in jail. Rosy Rani, who was sen- tenced to six months’ impri- sonment, has already served the term. Therefore, she has been released. The court had earlier held Thakur guilty under the Pro- tection of Children from Sex- ual Offences (POCSO) Act. The charges included ag- gravated penetrative sexual assault, gang-rape, rape and other relevant provisions under the Indian Penal Code and the Juvenile Justice Act. Vijay Kumar Tiwari, Gud- du Patel, Ramanuj Thakur and Kishan Kumar were also convicted of aggravated pe- netrative sexual assault, rape, gang-rape and other related offences. Thakur, 11 others get life term in shelter home case 6 others sentenced up to 7 years in jail Special Correspondent NEW DELHI CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
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U.S. President DonaldTrump will visit India on February 24 and 25, as per anoffi��cial announcement fromthe White House on Monday.
Mr. Trump and First LadyMelania Trump will visitNew Delhi and Ahmedabad.The White House said Ahmedabad was chosen for thevisit as Gujarat was home toPrime Minister NarendraModi and played an “important role” in Mahatma Gandhi’s life.
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Arvind Kejriwal and his AamAadmi Party (AAP) were voted back to power with a massive mandate in the Delhi Assembly election as the partywon 62 seats in the 70member House.
The party dropped justfi��ve seats and less than a percentage point in vote sharefrom its stellar 2015 showing.
Despite a hardfought andbitter campaign that saw bigguns, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister AmitShah address rallies, the BJPmanaged to win only eightseats, up fi��ve from its 2015tally. The Congress, yetagain, failed to open its account — the party’s candidates looked set to forfeittheir deposits on 63 of the 66seats contested.
Speaking after the victory,Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, “The people of Delhi have given birth to a newkind of politics — the politicsof work. This is a vote forthose who build schools,who provide electricity andhealthcare. This augurs wellfor the country.”
Ministers post winsThe AAP secured 53.57 % ofthe vote share, while the BJPgot 38.5% and the Congress4.3%. Though three of theAAP’s incumbent Ministers —Manish Sisodia, Kailash Gahlot and Satyendar Jain —were trailing after the fi��rstfew rounds of counting, theywent on to retain their seats.
Raghav Chadha, AtishiMarlena and Dilip Pandeyfrom the AAP, who lost in the2019 Lok Sabha election,strode into the Assembly.
On the other hand, formerAAP Minister Kapil Mishra,
who left the party and foughton a BJP ticket, was defeated.Anil Bajpai, also a formerAAP legislator, however, retained his Gandhi Nagarseat.
Delhi BJP chief Manoj Ti
wari, while accepting responsibility for the dismalperformance, argued thatthe party had been able to increase its vote share. “I congratulate Arvind Kejriwal...In comparison to 2015, the
BJP’s vote share has registered an increase, which isthe result of the hard workput in by its workers... theseresults also seem to heraldthe dawn of a new politicalera in the city, which has be
come bipolar instead oftriangular,” he said.
AAP sweeps Delhi with 62 seats, BJP trounced
Jaideep Deo Bhanj
Jatin Anand
NEW DELHI
■ BJP wins 8 seats, 5 more than
2015, with 38.5 % vote share
■ AAP gets 53.6%, marginally
below its 54.2% share in 2015
■ Congress candidates likely
to lose deposits in 63 seats
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CBI gives clean chit toRakesh AsthanaNEW DELHI
The CBI on Tuesday fi��led a
chargesheet in a case of
alleged bribery against its
former secondincommand
Rakesh Asthana and others,
giving a clean chit to him and
another offi��cial. “The
investigation has not
revealed any role of public
servants,” said a CBI offi��cial.
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Supreme Court to hearOmar sister’s plea todayNEW DELHI
A petition fi��led by Sara
Abdullah Pilot, the sister of
former J&K Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah, will be heard
by a threejudge Bench of the
Supreme Court, led by Justice
N.V. Ramana, on February 12.
She has approached the court
against the government’s
move to charge him under
the Public Safety Act.
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Kafeel Khan releasedfrom Mathura jail on bailGHAZIABAD
Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician
who was arrested on January
29 from Mumbai for making
an infl��ammatory speech at
Aligarh Muslim Unversity
against the CAA, was released
from Mathura jail on Tuesday
after being granted bail by an
Aligarh court.
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HC seeks Centre’s replyon Jamia violence pleaNEW DELHI
The Delhi High Court on
Tuesday sought the Centre’s
response on a petition
seeking a courtmonitored
probe by a committee into
the police crackdown at
Jamia Millia Islamia on
December 15 last year.
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Congratulating ArvindKejriwal for his resoundingvictory, Opposition partiessaid the BJP’s defeat showedthat politics of polarisationdidn’t pay dividends. WestBengal CM MamataBanerjee, in a tweet, said,“Leaders playing on faiththrough hate speech anddivisive politics should takea cue, as only those whodeliver on their promisesare rewarded.” A page 13
‘A referendumon BJP politics’
The Delhi Assembly electionresults could provide areason for Bihar ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar tosmile, say political analysts.The BJPled NDA’s crushingdefeat at the hands of theAAP would now emboldenthe Janata Dal (United) chiefto drive a harder bargain forseats with the BJP, in theupcoming Assemblyelection in the State, theysay. A page 13
Nitish gets areason to smile
Aam Aadmi Party legislatorand Leader of theOpposition in the PunjabAssembly Harpal Cheemaon Tuesday said the party’svictory in Delhi was a clearmessage that politics ofhatred is not accepted bypeople as they have votedfor development. AAP, hesaid, would replicate theDelhi model in Punjab inthe 2022 Assembly election.A page 2
Politics ofhatred rejected
The BJP’s sixth consecutiveloss in an Assembly poll —although the party managedto form a government inHaryana — points to a veryreal problem for the party.The Statelevel narrative ofthe party has not been asappealing as that of PMModi at the national level, somuch so that even Mr.Modi’s campaign did notmanage to lift the party’sfortunes. A page 13
Lack of localnarrative
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Union government to approach thetrial court for issuance of afresh date for the executionof the death sentence of theNirbhaya gang rape convicts.
Appearing before a threejudge Bench led by Justice R.Banumathi, Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta said the Nirbhaya convicts were tryingthe patience of the nation.
Mr. Mehta made a chillingreference to how policemenwho gunned down the fourgang rape and murder accused in Hyderabad werecheered by people, calling
the incident a symptom ofpeople losing faith in theprocess of law.
“This case [Nirbhaya] is of2012 and I am still strugglingto execute the death sentence. They [convicts] areacting in tandem to misusethe law by fi��ling one petitionafter the other… People willstop having faith in the judicial system. Seven years havegone by and the convicts arestill playing the judicial system… It is in situations likethis that people celebrate encounter killings,” Mr. Mehtasubmitted.
The Solicitor General saidconvicts Mukesh, Vinay andAkshay have seemingly ex
hausted remedies. Thefourth, Pawan Gupta, is yetto fi��le a mercy petition.
Fresh pleaMr. Mehta said a plea to fi��x anew date for the executionsin the trial court would immediately see one or the oth
er of the four convicts movecourt in a bid to further prolong the process.
As indicated, within a fewhours of the hearing, Vinaymoved the Supreme Courtchallenging the rejection ofhis mercy petition by thePresident.
Mr. Mehta stressed thatthe Supreme court should instead focus on the government’s appeal to allow thefour convicts to be separately executed. The court issuednotice to the four convicts onthis point and scheduled ahearing for February 13.
Solicitor General calls for separateexecutions of Nirbhaya case convicts
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Steel will: The parents of the Nirbhaya rape case victimoutside the Supreme Court in New Delhi in December. * PTI
A Delhi court on Tuesdaysought the response of thefour deathrow convicts inthe Nirbhaya gangrape andmurder case after a petitionwas fi��led by the victim’sparents and the Delhigovernment seekingissuance of fresh deathwarrant. PTI
Victim’s kinmove court
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Students of Gargi Collegestaged a strike and boycottedclasses for the second consecutive day on Tuesday inprotest against the February6 incident when they were al
legedly harassed and sexually assaulted on campus during a college festival.
Several students andteachers from diff��erent departments held a meeting toconstitute a factfi��nding committee. Ashna, a fi��nalyear
student, said, “A general body meeting [of students andteachers] was held to constitute a committee which would investigate the events thathappened during the fest.”
Gargi College students boycott classesStaff Reporter
New Delhi
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All sitting Ministers in Delhi’sAam Aadmi Party (AAP) government as well as theSpeaker of the Legislative Assembly retained their seatsin the Assembly election.And all of them, except theChief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister, also recorded a rise in their voteshare compared with theprevious election.
Some Ministers, includingManish Sisodia, Kailash Gehlot, Satyendra Jain, andSpeaker Ram Niwas Goelemerged victorious in tightcontests — all of them winning with a margin of lessthan 10,000 votes. Others,including Arvind Kejriwal,Gopal Rai, Rajendra Pal Gautam and Imran Hussain, wontheir seats with comfortablemargins of more than at least20,000 votes. Chief MinisterKejriwal, who won by margin of 21,697 votes, saw adrop of 3.04 percentagepoints in vote share.
Scare for SisodiaDeputy Chief Minister Sisodia, who encountered thelargest drop in vote share of4.31 percentage points from2015, won after a neckandneck battle with the BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negi in the Patparganj constituency. Mr. Sisodia, who had won by amargin of 28,791 votes in2015, looked to be losing theseat as Mr. Negi maintained alead in the fi��rst 10 rounds ofcounting. However, once heovertook his rival in round 11in the afternoon, he man
aged to hold on and won by amargin of 3,207 votes.
Similarly, Speaker Goeltrailed in the fi��rst 11 roundsof counting in the Shahdraconstituency before thetrend reversed and he managed to win by a margin of5,294 votes.
Health Minister SatyendraJain more than doubled hismargin of victory, retainingthe Shakur Basti constituency with a margin of 7,592votes over the BJP’s candidate S.C. Vats.
Transport Minister Gehlot, who won from the Najafgarh constituency, was thebiggest gainer in terms ofvote share, improving on hisprevious victory by 15.6 percentage points.
In Seemapuri, Minister ofTourism Rajendra Pal Gautam won by the largest votemargin among all ministers— at 56,108 and a 2.78 percentage point increase invote share. In Balimaran, Minister of Food and Civil Supplies Imran Hussain won bya margin of 36,172.Ministerof Labour Gopal Rai won theBabarpur seat by a margin of33,062.
All AAP Ministers sansCM and his deputy see rise in vote share Speaker, too, emerged victorious
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Government can seek fresh execution dates, says SC
A special court here onTuesday sentenced BrajeshThakur and 11 others, including three women, to life imprisonment for the sexualand physical assault of girlinmates of a shelter home inMuzaff��arpur, Bihar.
Additional sessions judgeSaurabh Kulshreshtha alsoimposed a fi��ne of ₹��32 lakh onThakur.
Six others were sentenced up to seven years injail. Rosy Rani, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, has already servedthe term. Therefore, she has
been released.The court had earlier held
Thakur guilty under the Protection of Children from Sexual Off��ences (POCSO) Act.
The charges included aggravated penetrative sexualassault, gangrape, rape andother relevant provisionsunder the Indian Penal Codeand the Juvenile Justice Act.
Vijay Kumar Tiwari, Guddu Patel, Ramanuj Thakurand Kishan Kumar were alsoconvicted of aggravated penetrative sexual assault,rape, gangrape and otherrelated off��ences.
Thakur, 11 others get lifeterm in shelter home case6 others sentenced up to 7 years in jail
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