tirupati l wednesday l may 15, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION Activist Gautam Navlakha gets bail in Elgar Parishad case The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the stay on the bail granted by the Bombay High Court in December 2023, in view of the lengthy trial Four years on, charges yet to be framed In house arrest since November 2023 The HC had stayed the bail for three weeks to allow the NIA to appeal. The SC bench of justices M M Sundresh and S V N Bhatti refused to extend the stay. “The appellant has been in incarceration for more than four years and charges are yet to be framed. The trial would take years and years and years for completion. Thus, we are not inclined to extend the stay,” it said ■ Navlakha, who was arrested in August 2018, has been placed under house arrest since November 2023. He is currently residing in Navi Mumbai ■ The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claim triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial `20 lakh Amount to be paid by Navlakha towards security during his house arrest 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 PM files papers amid show of NDA strength Following the attack alleged by YSRC cadre on TDP leader Pulivarthi Nani, party activists staged an agitation at Sri Padmavathi Mahila Visva Vidyalayam. They ransacked cars and set bikes on fire in Tirupati city on Tuesday. YSRC activists reportedly wielded hammers, beer bottles, and stones in the assault | Express Day after polling, violence rages on Tension prevailed in Tirupati, Palnadu and Tadipatri; TDP Chandragiri MLA candidate assaulted E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Tirupati/Guntur/Anantapur Even as polling ended, tension prevailed in parts of the State, particularly in Tirupati, Palnadu and Tadipatri of Sri Sathya Sai district, keeping the police on tenterhooks. While alleged YSRC activists attacked a TDP candidate in Tirupati, prompting the gunman of the leader to open fire, supporters of the two parties pelted stones on each other in Tadipatri, forcing police to resort to lathicharge and fire teargas to quell the mob. In Tirupati, TDP’s Chandragiri Assembly candidate Pulivarthi Nani sustained following an attack by miscreants, suspected to be supporters of the YSRC, on the premises of Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam. According to eyewitnesses, the clash erupted after Nani inspected the strong room located on the university campus and encount e r e d a g r o u p o f Y S RC activists. What began as a verbal altercation, swiftly escalated into physical violence, with the YSRC workers reportedly wielding hammers, beer bottles, and stones in the assault. Nani’s gunman Dharani fired Naidu seeks action against violence TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu strongly condemned the attack on Pulavarthi Nani by YSRC activists and also denounced the violence in Macherla and Tadipatri Assembly constituencies. He sought the Election Commission of India to intervene and take immediate action two warning shots into the air, dispersing the attackers. Subsequently a video featur, ing Nani’s spouse, Sudha, detailing the attack and implicating YSRC activists and followers of YSRC MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy circulated wide, ly on social media platforms. As news spread, Nani’s supporters gathered to protest against the unprovoked attack on their leader. The protest intensified as Nani’s supporters occupied the university’s main thoroughfare, impeding vehicular movement. The situation deteriorated as enraged demonstrators vandalised a car displaying YSRC flags and setting several motorcycles on fire. To quell the escalating vio- conduct re-polling in 6 booths: ambati Minister for Water Resources Ambati Rambabu complained to the Election Commission of India about the violent incidents that took place in Palnadu region and demanded re-polling in six polling booths under the Sattenapalli segment. He claimed that rigging took place in two polling booths lence, a force of security personnel was dispatched to the area, who caned the unruly crowds. The TDP cadres resisted police action and retaliated by vandalising police vehicles. They accused police of being b i a s e d t ow a rd s B h a s k a r Reddy . District authorities, including Collector Pravin Kumar and Superintendent of Police Krishna Kant Patil, rushed to the scene and asserted that appropriate action will be taken against the perpetrators. While speaking to media, Nani questioned the authorities’ competence in safeguarding the election process, given the brazen attack within the premises of the strong room. Nani also raised concerns over the safety of the Electronic VotP4 ing Machines (EVMs). Voter turnout likely to touch 81% in Andhra Pradesh The voter turnout is expected to touch 81% with polling continuing till 2 am on Tuesday Chief Electoral Officer Mukesh . Kumar Meena in an informal interaction with mediapersons said voting percentage was estimated to be 78.25% as of midnight. He added that the number will go up marginally as voters in around 20 polling sta, tions cast their votes till early morning. As votes cast through postal ballots accounted for 1.2% of voters, total voting percentage stood at 79.4%. In 2019, 79.8% voting was recorded. Scores of women and elderly people thronged the polling booths, especially after 4 pm on Monday, to cast their vote. This is said to be one of the reasons for the prolonged polling in some places. Voting was affected at 20 polling stations due to EVM-related issues. As per data obtained from district election officers, the highest voter turnout was reported in Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district and the lowest in Alluri Sitarama Raju district. The figures might change as data was still being collated P4 when this report was filed. A n u p Ve r m a @ New Delhi A day after Aam Aadmi Party leader Swati Maliwal accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s private secretary Bibhav Kumar of misbehaving with her, the party sought to limit the damage by admitting the crime, adding stern action would be taken against the accused. Swati Maliwal is AAP’s Rajya Sabha member and former head of the Delhi Commission for Women. She was assaulted at the chief minister’s residence on Monday Maliwal alerted the police but did not file a formal . complaint. The party took more than 30 hours to react to the controversy that came bang in the middle of the general elections. “Yesterday (Monday) morning, Maliwal went to Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to meet him. While she was waiting in the drawing room, Bibhav Kumar came there and misbehaved with Swati Maliwal. She had reported the incident to the police by calling on the number 112. We deeply condemn this incident. Kejriwal has taken cognisance of the incident and called for strict action,” said party leader party leader Sanjay Singh. Maliwal, he said, is one of the oldest and senior most AAP leaders. “We are all standing with her. The chief minister has taken this issue seriously and strict action will follow. I want to make it clear that the AAP does not support such people,” Singh said. As per the police log, a PCR call from Maliwal came in at 9.34 am on Monday alleging she had been assaulted by , one of the chief minister’s staff. “As per information, the lady is saying that she is at the CM’s house and has been assaulted by CM’s PA Bibhav Kumar,” a note on the PCR call read. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva lit into the AAP’s silence on the incident on Monday, saying it reflected the mentality of the party . New Delhi: Colonel Waibhav Anil Kale, a former Indian Army officer who had joined a UN agency in Gaza barely two months ago, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in came under attack in war-torn Rafah in Gaza, becoming the first ‘international casualty’ for the world body since the IsraelHamas conflicted started. Kale, 46, is survived by his wife and two teenage children Scan the QR code for further details *Basis lab test in controlled environment on protein damaged hair after five washes express read Available on Prime Minister Modi concluded his two-day visit to Kashi by addressing a gathering of party workers and exuded confidence about the NDA‘s victory in the elections. He urged party workers to maintain the momentum till the last phase of voting on June 1 N a m i ta B a j pa i @ Lucknow Seeking a third term as member of Parliament from Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday filed his nomination papers amid great fanfare and symbolism in the presence of a whole array of NDA allies, chief ministers and Union ministers. Before filing his papers during the auspicious Pushya Nakshatra on the day of Ganga Saptami (River Ganga is believed to have flown down to earth on this day), Modi offered prayers to the holy river at Dashashwamedh Ghat under the guidance of K Venkat Raman Ghanapathy, a member of Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust, along with three priests from Tamil Nadu and one each from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. He paid obeisance at the Kashi Kotwal Kaal Bhairav temple before proceeding to the collectorate to file his papers amid chants of Har Har Mahadev. At the district magistrate’s office, four persons — Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid, Baijnath Patel, Lalchand Kushwaha and Sanjay Sonkar — representing different sections of the society, proposed Modi’s name for nomination from the constituency . E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada Day after, AAP admits assault on Maliwal Ex-Indian Army officer with UN killed in Gaza after his vehicle comes under attack Pep talk for cadre TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu & JSP chief Pawan Kalyan with PM Modi in Varanasi on Tuesday | Express
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