THIRUVANANTHAPURAM l Sunday l march 24, 2024 l `12.00 l PAGES 24 l LATE city edition cbi raids multiple premises of Moitra in cash-for-query scam The CBI conducted searches at various premises linked to Mahua Moitra, including her parents’ home in Kolkata, in the cash-for-query case trinamool calls raids vendetta politics The CBI sleuths reached the Trinamool Congress leader’s home in Kolkata and other cities early in the morning and went to her party office in Krishnanagar in the evening. The TMC repeated her for the Lok Sabha poll from Krishnanagar. The party dubbed the raids as vendetta politics and a desperate attempt by the BJP to misuse central agencies ahead of the polls ■ 1st TIME CBI TO FILE REPORT WITHIN SIX MONTHS ■ A FIR was filed this week against Moitra on the directions of Lokpal, which has asked the CBI to file its report within six months Moitra has challenged her expulsion from Lok Sabha in the SC. She was expelled in December 2023 following the recommendation of Ethics Committee for sharing her login, password of NIC portal MAHUA MOITRA BECAME A LOK sABHA mp IN 2019 CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI 133 killed and counting in Moscow terror attack by IS group’s Afghanistan branch Ye s h i s e l i @ New Delhi Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at an AAP protest condemning the arrest of his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, in New Delhi on Saturday | PTI HC rejects urgent hearing. Holi-day for Kejri with ED Comment by German foreign office on full legal access to the Delhi CM angers MEA the liquor policy scam. Of the proceed of crimes, `45 crore was used in the Goa polls. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind In a related development, the Kejriwal on Saturday suffered Ministry of External Affairs a fresh setback after the Delhi (MEA) bristled at a comment High Court rejected his appeal on Kejriwal by a spokesperson for urgent listing and hearing of Germany’s foreign office. “Kejriwal is entitled to fair against his remand in the liqand impartial trial. uor scam case. He was This includes that he remanded in the Enmakes use of all availforcement Directoable legal avenues rate’s custody till without restriction. Thursday by a local The presumption of court on Friday . innocence is a central The legal team of element of the rule of Aam Aadmi Party ‘Will come law and must apply to (AAP) national conout soon’ him,” the spokespervenor Kejriwal mentioned the matter be- “I will soon come son said. The MEA reacted fore J u s t i c e out... Whether Manmohan, Acting inside or outside, rather shar ply by Chief Justice. The every moment of summoning German envoy Georg Enzweiljudge heard it though my life is er and voicing its disit was the court’s off dedicated to approval. “The Gerday but refused to list serving the , it for urgent hearing. country,” Kejriwal man Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi Since the Delhi High was quoted as Court will be closed saying by his wife was summoned and we conveyed India’s for two days on Mon- Sunita in a video strong protest on their day and Tuesday due to the Holi festival, the earliest foreign office spokesperson’s Kejriwal’s plea can be listing comments on our internal affairs. We see it as undermining for hearing is Wednesday . The ED had alleged on Fri- the independence of our judiciday that Kejriwal generated ary,’’ said MEA spokesperson over `100 crore in kickbacks in Randhir Jaiswal. S u c h i t r a K a lya n M o h a n t y a n d Ye s h i Se l i @ New Delhi At least 133 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a packed concert hall in western Moscow, Russian authorities said on Saturday. The Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch later claimed responsibility for the attack. Gunmen burst into Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday and randomly opened fire on people who had arrived to watch a concert by Russian band Picnic that was about to start. The attackers also set off a blaze that took firefighters hours to bring under control. Authorities said the toll could rise as investigators were combing through the charred wreck- Putin rejected warnings about attack, says US Rescuers clear charred wreckage inside Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on Saturday | AP The US Embassy in Moscow said it had warned Russia on March 7 that extremists were planning to target large gatherings in the city. But Russian President Vladimir Putin had called it a “provocative” statement and “outright blackmail... to intimidate and destabilise our society by scaring Russian citizens” age of the hall for more victims. Over 100 people have been injured and the condition of 44 of them is said to be serious. The Russian interior ministry said all four suspected gunmen were foreign nationals. Sources with links to the security services said they were from Tajikistan. One of the detained suspects reportedly told Russian investi- Burying body without land owner’s nod akin to abandonment: HC E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Kochi The Kerala High Court has held that burying a body on a stranger’s property without the owner’s explicit consent could be interpreted as abandonment of that body . The court made the observation while considering a petition filed by Rajesh, a Kottayam native, seeking to implement the subdivisional magistrate’s order to disinter the body of a woman buried on his land without his consent. Following the death of an elderly woman who had been suffering from cancer for a long time, her son buried the body in their ancestral property that had been sold to a third party The . son claimed that the burial was done with the consent of the present owner. However, the land owner approached the sub-divisional magistrate concerned and obtained a favourable order, which was not implemented. The magistrate, in the order issued in October 2022, had directed the son to disinter the body within one week, failing which the secretary of Amballoor panchayat was to get the body exhumed and bury it in the panchayat burial ground. The HC said the woman’s body was buried on a stranger’s property, whose religion, faith and custom do not permit such a burial. It is a good enough reason for ordering dis● More on P4 interment, it said. Special election coverage the game is on in Kerala powerplay P2 will return with the edition dated May 5, 2024 EXPRESS READ Ajay Rai to take on Modi in Varanasi New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday released its fourth list of 45 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, fielding its Uttar Pradesh unit chief Ajay Rai from Varanasi to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While the Congress fielded its veteran leader Digvijaya Singh from Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh, it nominated newlyinducted leader Lal Singh from Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur to take on Union minister Jitendra Singh. P7 WITH THIS ISSUE PLUS 12 PAGES Packing a Punch gators he was recruited through Telegram and offered 5,00,000 rubles (`4.5 lakh) for his role. In his statement on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said 11 people have been detained. He also sought to link the attack to Ukraine, saying they were trying to escape to Ukraine through a ‘window’ prepared for them on the Ukrainian side of the border. But Ukraine denied any role in the carnage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined others in condemning the attack. “We strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack.... India stands in solidarity with the government and the people of the Russian Federation in this hour of grief,” he P9 posted on X. State moves SC against Prez over pending bills E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ T’Puram In an unusual move that could trigger major legal debates, the state government has approached the Supreme Court against President Droupadi Murmu withholding assent to four bills passed by the state assembly . The petition urged the court to declare as unconstitutional the Presi- dent not granting assent to the bills without assigning a reason. The state government has named the Union government, the secretary to the President of India, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan who referred the four bills to the President, and his additional secretary as respondents in the case. The suit, filed through advocate C K Sasi, challenges the legality of the President’s action to withhold assent to the bills referred to her. It will also spark a constitutional debate on whether the President’s action is open to judicial review. The President’s secretary is the prime respondent in the suit filed by chief secretary V Venu and ● More on P4 the Perambra MLA.
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