Issue 261

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British MPs take up Johal
‘torture’ with Theresa May
LONDON : More than 70 MPs from different
parties have signed a letter by Labour
MP Preet Kaur Gill to Prime Minister
Theresa May, raising the issue of
alleged torture of British citizen Jagtar
Singh Johal, who was arrested in
Punjab in November 2017.
Seeking an urgent statement in
Parliament from foreign secretary
Boris Johnson, the letter referred to
reports in the British media about
Johal being allegedly tortured. He has been
denied an independent medical examination, the
letter said. Johal's arrest has often been raised by
British ministers and officials with Indian counterparts,
including during the April visit of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi. Punjab Police rubbished
the reports about the alleged torture of
Johal while in custody.
“All these allegations are baseless. Due legal
process was followed during the arrest of
Johal and he underwent proper medical
examination under supervision of the court
during remand,” a Punjab Police
spokesman said.
A team that included Andrew Ayne, the
British deputy high commissioner at
Chandigarh, had a 65-minute consular
access meeting with Johal at Ludhana on
November 24, 2017, the spokesperson
said, adding: “A malicious campaign has been
launched by militants and their sympathisers as
well as radical elements in Britain which is nothing
but a slanderous campaign.”
Gill, who is chair of the AllParty Parliamentary
Group on British Sikhs, wrote in the letter: “We
have also written to the chief minister of Punjab,
Captain Amarinder Singh, but to no avail.
Dalai Lama arrives in Leh
JAMMU: Buddhist spiritual leader, the 14th
Dalai Lama, reached Leh on Tuesday morning to
attend a Buddhist conference at Nubra on July 10,
11 and 12. “The Dalai Lama’s is likely to stay for
15-16 days in Leh and will be attending the conference
in Nubra for three days. These are tentative
dates,” said assistant information officer
from Leh, Angdul. The Nobel laureate was
received by Jammu and Kashmir legislative
council’s chairman Haji Inayat Ali, member of
parliament (MP) ThupstanTsewang, member of
legislative assembly (MLA) Leh Nawang Rigzin
Jora, religious, political and social heads of both
Leh and Kargil districts. At Jive-tsal, the Dalai
Lama’s palace in Leh, he addressed Rinpoches,
monks, nuns and locals and thanked people of
Ladakh for their love and respect.
He said there is need to develop the quality of
love and kindness along with materialistic
development by all the world religions.
Talking about the recent conference of Indian
Himalayan Buddhist Communities held at Delhi,
he appreciated the decision of converting the
monasteries into learning centres.
With the shifting of paradigm from feudal
system to democracy it is necessary to bring
change in our monastic system as well, stressed
Dalai Lama. “Feudal system garners hate and
violence, while democracy gives right to all for
developing a peaceful environment,”he said,
adding that the world is going through an emotional
crisis.
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1.5 lakh people may lose their
citizenship status in Assam
GUWAHATI : Around 1.5 lakh people whose
names were in the first part draft of the ongoing
exercise of updation of National Register
of Citizens (NRC), now risk earning the tag of
illegal immigrant. They will not be part of the
July 30 draft of the NRC following discrepancies
reported in the second round of verification
process, authorities said on Tuesday.The
first draft published on midnight of December
31, 2017, had 1.9 crore names out of the 3.29
crore who applied. The Supreme Court on
Monday extended the deadline to publish the
second draft to July 30. The NRC exercise is
being conducted to identify alleged illegal
immigrants in the state.
As per the Supreme Court order, those who
will be excluded, include 65,694 cases of family
tree investigations, whose claims were
found to be false in the second round of family
tree verification, 48,456 cases of married
women who submitted certificates issued by
Gaon panchayats to prove their citizenship and
19,783 persons whose names were erroneously
mentioned in the first draft .
This has led to questions on the credibility of
the ongoing exercise.
“How is it possible that names of 1.5 lakh foreigners
were included in the first draft? Who
are the responsible officers?” asked Tarun
Gogoi, former chief minister. “It just proves
that the NRC exercise is not being done properly
from the initial stage,” he said, adding that
there were apprehensions that genuine Indian
citizens may be kept out of the final draft.
“How is it possible that despite the exercise
having been started in 2015, there are still
errors,” asked Aminul Islam, the general secretary
of All Indian United Democratic Front.
Around 40,000 state government officials and
outsourced data entry operators have been
engaged in this mammoth exercise which
started in 2015.
An NRC official, on condition of anonymity,
however, counters these claims, but blamed
“architecture of the whole exercise” for the
errors.
He explained that how in some cases the family
tree verification done before publishing the
first draft was found to be false when all the
families were brought together for a joint verification.
In the case of Gaon panchayat certificates, the
NRC official said some officials at the local
level verified them even though it was supposed
to be done only after the publication of
the first draft.
The Supreme Court, in its order of July 2,
amid opposition by several groups, upheld the
directives given by NRC state coordinater
Prateek Hajela on D (doubtful) voters — those
of declared foreigners and those whose cases
are pending with the foreigners tribunals will
not be part of the complete draft till their cases
are decided.
“It goes to the credit of the NRC authorities
that we have been able to spot problems before
the publication of the complete draft,” Hajela
said.
An NRC official said out of the approximately
1,26,000 D voters, over 63,000 have been
identified, and out of another around 90,000
declared foreigners, another 4,500 have been
identified.