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The International News Weekly india<br />
April 13, 2018 | Toronto<br />
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J&K Police wants two Sikh prosecutors<br />
to handle Kathua rape-murder case<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
New Delhi : With the rape<br />
and murder of an eight-year-old<br />
Bakherwal Muslim girl in Kathua<br />
sparking outrage and the case<br />
being given a communal twist by<br />
a Hindu outfit and Jammu-based<br />
politicians and lawyers rallying<br />
in support of the accused, police<br />
in J&K, hoping to check further<br />
polarisation, have sought the<br />
appointment of two Sikh police<br />
officers as special prosecuting officers<br />
in the case.<br />
The J&K Police, sources said,<br />
want the Crime Branch case to<br />
be represented by Bhupinder<br />
Singh and Harminder Singh.<br />
While Bhupinder Singh is Chief<br />
Prosecuting Officer in the J&K<br />
Police prosecution wing, Harminder<br />
Singh is Chief Prosecuting<br />
Officer, Samba.<br />
BJP MPs stage hunger strike<br />
New Delhi : All seven<br />
Delhi BJP MPs staged<br />
a hunger strike here on<br />
Thursday against the<br />
washout of the second part<br />
of Parliament's budget session<br />
due to continuous disruptions,<br />
which the party<br />
blamed it on the Congress.<br />
Union Minister Harsh<br />
Vardhan, who represents<br />
the Chandani Chowk constituency,<br />
East Delhi MP<br />
Maheish Girri, New Delhi<br />
MP Meenakshi Lekhi,<br />
West Delhi MP Pravesh<br />
Verma, North West Delhi<br />
MP Udit Raj, South Delhi<br />
MP Ramesh Bidhuri<br />
and North East Delhi MP<br />
Manoj Tiwari participated<br />
in the day-long strike that<br />
will conclude at 4 p.m.<br />
Civil Aviation Minister<br />
Suresh Prabhu would also<br />
visit and meet the fasting<br />
Delhi MPs and party workers.<br />
Delhi BJP President<br />
Manoj Tiwari said that he<br />
will continue his "indefinite<br />
hunger strike" to protest<br />
against the continuous<br />
biased neglect of development<br />
work in North East<br />
Delhi by the Arvind Kejriwal<br />
government in Delhi.<br />
Prime Minister Narendra<br />
Modi will fast while<br />
on a day-long visit to Tamil<br />
Nadu. BJP President Amit<br />
Shah will observe a hunger<br />
strike in Hubli in pollbound<br />
Karnataka, while<br />
party MPs will fast in their<br />
constituencies.<br />
The BJP's fast comes<br />
days after Congress President<br />
Rahul Gandhi led the<br />
party's day-long hunger<br />
strike at the Rajghat here<br />
on Monday over alleged<br />
increasing atrocities on<br />
Dalits, adivasis, and minorities.<br />
Director General of Police<br />
S P Vaid has already written to<br />
the Principal Secretary (Home)<br />
in this connection. “Yes, I have<br />
written to the Home department,’’<br />
Vaid told mediaperson.<br />
“For me, they are police officers<br />
whose profession, and not religious<br />
identity, is important. In<br />
fact, the people who were opposing<br />
the Crime Branch investigation<br />
into the case were also trying<br />
to raise accusations against<br />
our team. I gave them the same<br />
answer.”<br />
Sources said the police “want<br />
to have prosecuting officers from<br />
their own ranks” but from a<br />
“neutral faith” to avoid further<br />
communal division.<br />
“So much communal politics<br />
has been played in Jammu over<br />
this case that the entire atmosphere<br />
is polluted. Those who<br />
are campaigning in favour of<br />
the accused have been questioning<br />
the Crime Branch probe only<br />
on communal grounds,’’ a police<br />
officer said. “The J&K Police is<br />
a nationalist force in Kashmir<br />
where it is at the forefront of<br />
counter-insurgency operations,<br />
but here (in Jammu), it is being<br />
considered anti-national because<br />
a few members of the Crime<br />
Branch investigation team happen<br />
to be Muslims. Ironically,<br />
the SSP monitoring the probe is<br />
a Kashmiri Pandit. We want to<br />
avoid unnecessary controversy.<br />
Our priority is to ensure that the<br />
eight-year-old gets justice,” the<br />
officer said.<br />
Modi opens IEF16, calls for<br />
responsible oil, gas pricing<br />
New Delhi : Noting that<br />
India will be a key driver<br />
of global energy demand<br />
in the next quarter century,<br />
Prime Minister Narendra<br />
Modi on Wednesday<br />
called for "responsible"<br />
pricing in the hydrocarbons<br />
market so as to balance<br />
the interests of oil<br />
and gas producers and<br />
consumers.<br />
Inaugurating the 16th<br />
International Energy Forum<br />
(IEF) ministerial<br />
here, being held in India<br />
after a gap of 22 years,<br />
Modi said that a massive<br />
transformation has been<br />
underway in the energy<br />
market with consumption<br />
growth shifting from<br />
the developed world to the<br />
emerging and developing<br />
economies. "The world<br />
has seen prices on a roller<br />
coaster for much too long.<br />
We need responsible prices<br />
to balance the interests<br />
of both producer and consumer,"<br />
Modi said.<br />
The Prime Minister<br />
said energy demand in India<br />
is projected to grow at<br />
4.5 per cent in the next 25<br />
years, while gas demand<br />
was expected to triple.<br />
"We need a transparent<br />
and flexible market...<br />
there has to be a mutually<br />
supportive relationship<br />
between producers<br />
and consumers. Efforts<br />
at artificially distorting<br />
prices are self-defeating as<br />
history has shown us," he<br />
said. "Let us build a global<br />
consensus on responsible<br />
pricing which will<br />
serve both producer and<br />
consumer. In a period of<br />
global uncertainty, India<br />
needs energy security,"<br />
Modi added.<br />
Tytler, Sajjan leave stage at Rahul's<br />
fast at Rajghat<br />
Indo-Asian News Service<br />
New Delhi: The Congress'<br />
day-long hungerstrike<br />
at Rajghat on Monday<br />
to highlight "atrocities<br />
against Dalits, tribals and<br />
minorities" in the country<br />
began on a controversial<br />
note, with 1984-riot<br />
accused leaders Jagdish<br />
Tytler and Sajjan Kumar<br />
leaving the stage before<br />
party President Rahul<br />
Gandhi joined the event.<br />
Tytler and Kumar<br />
were seen leaving the Mahatma<br />
Gandhi's memorial<br />
soon after their arrival for<br />
the Congress' anti-government<br />
protest, apparently<br />
after being told to leave<br />
due to their alleged links<br />
with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots<br />
in Delhi.<br />
Tytler, who was later<br />
seen in the crowd, has long<br />
been accused of instigating<br />
rioters against Sikhs<br />
following the assassination<br />
of then Prime Minister<br />
Indira Gandhi by her<br />
Sikh security guards. Kumar<br />
is also accused of his<br />
involvement in two cases<br />
related to the riots. The<br />
charges have, however,<br />
not been proved against<br />
either.<br />
On being asked by media<br />
persons, Tytler said:<br />
"Who is leaving? I will sit<br />
here with the workers. I<br />
am not going anywhere."<br />
Asked why did he<br />
leave the place which was<br />
meant for the leaders, he<br />
said: "I was sitting there. I<br />
am coming from there."<br />
Asked if his party did<br />
not accept his presence<br />
there, Tytler replied: "Who<br />
said this? Who said this?"<br />
Delhi Pradesh Congress<br />
Committee President Ajay<br />
Maken, however, clarified<br />
that the two leaders were<br />
not asked to leave. He said<br />
the stage and its enclosure<br />
at the venue were reserved<br />
for some Congress officebearers.<br />
"We are praying for togetherness<br />
and for brotherhood,<br />
for all religions<br />
and castes in the country,<br />
so that we can send out a<br />
message that all Indians<br />
are one and there is no<br />
division on caste basis,"<br />
Maken said.<br />
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