The ideas Page: We have a voter-roll problem. But it’s not 13 crore deleted voters 9 SATUrdAY, OCTOBEr 24, 2026 JOurnAlism of COurAge JaiPur, late city, 18 PaGeS ₹6.00 l www.indianexpress.com da i ly f r o M : a h M e da B a d , c h a N d i Ga r h , d e l h i , J a i P u r , ko l k ata , l u c k N o w , M u M B a i , N aG P u r , Pat N a , P u N e , va d o da r a PosTal regn. no. JaiPur ciTy/001/2024-26 happening today lBJP President Nitin Nabin will meet all district presidents and district in-charges in Jharkhand’s Sukurhutu and will also address the party’s state executive committee meeting. Congress seeks ‘immediate ansWers’ from goVt ITBP flags Arunachal face-off, Govt says China patrols stray time to time lUnion CommerCe Minister MEA: Both sides using military, diplomatic mechanisms to avoid LAC miscalculation Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com express news service Piyush Goyal will begin his visit to the Netherlands. 2,000guards, no-carzone: Policenowclear diljitconcertin delhinextweek New Delhi, October 23 a montH after india and chinaheldcorpscommanderlevel talks in arunachal Pradesh amid reports of tension in the taksing area of Upper subansiri district following moves by the chinese Pla, shatrujeet Kapur, director general of the indo-tibetan Border Police (itBP), has admitted to a “faceoff” at “several locations in arunachal” which are “still ongoing”. the itBP chief’s remarks, the first by an official on the situation in the frontier state, drew a sharp reaction from the opposition congress friday which demanded “immediate answers”fromthegovernment on the situation. theministryofexternalaffairs, responding to a question on Kapur’s comments, said the situation along the line of actual control “gets disturbed from time to time when chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns”. it underlined that “maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas is essential for the overall development of bilat- explained Commanders met a month ago iTBP dg shatrujeet kapur during the himveer samman samaroh in alwar, Thursday. @itBP_official/X eral relations”. speaking at the Himveer samman samaroh, an annual felicitation ceremony for itBP personnel, in alwar in rajasthan thursday, Kapur said, “our newly raised shaurya In September, India and China held Corps Commander-level talks at the Wacha-Damai border meeting point on the Indian side. Wacha is India’s easternmost border personnel meeting point, located in the Kibithoo sector of Arunachal Pradesh. Indian troops continue to be deployed in large numbers in the area. commandos are doing great work. recently, a situation arose where a face-off took place at several locations in arunachal and is still ongoing. there, our shaurya commando teams played an exemplary role. as everyone knows, the itBP was raised as a mountain guerrilla force and we were given the duty of guarding the border along china in 2004. We should not abandon our exact mandate.” “We do not need guerrilla warfare these days. a specialised high-altitude mountain fighting force is being set up, whichwillbedifferentfromthe army. as of now, we have formed one shaurya commandoteamineverybattalion, andtwomorehavebeenconstituted, so that there will be a By EP UNNY New Delhi, October 23 Page 3 delhi: over 150 PeoPle detained during Protest against CeC Police suspect handlers were surfing TV channels to alert assailants some of the accused outside a mumbai court, Friday. GaNeSh ShirSekar Mumbai, October 23 sakshi Chand inside ‘Chehre aa gaye hain, nikal jao’: on the run, shooters got updates via calls, messages mohamed thaver diljit dosanjh will perform at the Jln stadium. @dilJitdoSaNJh/X »ContinUed on Page 2 attaCk on tiger shroff »ContinUed on Page 2 Business as usual singer dilJit dosanjh’s october 30 concert at delhi’s Jawaharlal nehru (Jln) stadium received clearance from the delhi Police on friday — a day after permission was denied over security concerns — followingdiscussionsbetweenthe force and organisers on crowd management, traffic regulation, parking and security arrangements. officials who attended the meetings said the organisers had initially proposed deployingaround400privatesecurity personnel.thedelhiPolice,officials said, stressed that 1,500 to 2,000 would be required to assist with crowd management, regulate queues, guide concert-goers to designated entry gates, man help kiosks, andfacilitatepedestrianmovement in and around the venue. this, they said, will ease the burden on police and prevent last-minute congestion. a police officer said permission had been denied earlier because the arrangements proposed by the organisers did not meet the force’s requirements.theongoingfestiveseason was also a concern, with markets across the city already witnessing heavy footfall, placing additional demands on express special the world Satheesan at Express Adda P 14 Palestinian gunmen kill 2 trooPs, israel to Close West Bank keralam chief minister V d satheesan in conversation with Vandita mishra, national opinion editor, The indian express, and liz mathew, deputy editor, The indian express, at the express adda in new delhi, Friday. reNuka Puri 7 killed, 34 injured in firing at jordan ChurCh funeral Jio IPO fires up market, Fadnavis orders probe into Jarange subscribed 22 times over claim, Sena says bid to ‘finish’ Shinde as it draws record bids shubhangi khapre, Zeeshan shaikh george mathew & Vallabh ozarkar Mumbai, October 23 Mumbai, October 23 Jio Platforms’ mega initial public offering (iPo), which closedfriday,hasrewrittenthe record books of india’s capital market, drawing bids worth over rs 4.90 lakh crore, the biggest-everinvestorresponsetoa public issue in the country. together with anchor book subscription, the worth of the bids mounted to rs 7.4 lakh crore. thers30,213-croreoffering wassubscribed22.19times,signalling a massive appetite for sharesofthetelecom-to-digital conglomerate. the frenzy was led by institutional investors, with qualified institutional buyers (QiBs) amid rising tensions in maharashtra’s ruling mahayuti alliance over an audio clip releasedbymarathaquotaactivist manojJarange-Patil,maharashtra chief minister devendra fadnavis friday ordered a forensic probe, even as a leader of ally shiv sena accused some BJP leaders of conspiring to undermine deputy cm eknath shinde and politically “finish him off”. in response, the BJP said it would not tolerate such attacks from an ally. at a press conference on thursday,Jarange-Patilplayed an audio clip of an alleged conversation between BJP func- akash ambani, managing director of Jio Platforms. reuterS bidding for 70.55 times their allotted quota on the closing day of the iPo, according to stock exchange data. thenon-institutionalinvestor segment was subscribed 14 times,whileretailinvestorsbid 2.72 times their quota and »ContinUed on Page 2 in tHe cat-and-mouse chase between the mumbai Police and the shooters who fled on a motorcycleafteropeningfireat actor tiger shroff’s car in Juhu on october 18, the shooters allegedly had an edge — they werebeingconstantlytoldhow far the police investigation had progressed, based on what televisionchannelswerereporting. accordingtopolicesources, at one point, when their photographs from videos of the shooting were flashed on tV screens, one of the shooters got a message that carried an instruction: “Tumharechehreaa gaye hain, nikal jao waha se” (your faces have come out, get out of there). Joint commissioner (crime)anilKumbharedidnot respond to a message seeking comment. shroff escaped unhurt in the attack, but his driver and a vlogger sustained injuries. the three accused — Phool singh, 18, rehan rahisuddin ansari, 18,andrithikmahto,22—were arrested in rajasthan the next day and have been sent to policecustodyuntiloctober31.so far, 10 people have been arrested. anil Pandit, who claims to be linked to the lawrence Bishnoi gang, has claimed responsibility for the attack in an unverified social media post. sourcessaidpoliceareyetto establish who was relaying the updates from tV channels to »ContinUed on Page 2 Fugitive gangster Himanshu Bhau held in US, Indian agencies work on extradition Neeraj Faridpuria, another gangster, also picked up mahender singh manral New Delhi, October 23 maharashtra deputy cm eknath shinde; (right) maratha reservation activist manoj Jarange-Patil. file tionaries on efforts to counter his influence before the 2024 assembly elections, including referencestors500croreallegedlymeantforhim.shindeand hissonshrikantshinde,anmP, wereinthemiddleofthis,healleged. the shiv sena has denied the accusations, while the BJP has cast doubts about the clip’sauthenticity.theactivist, meanwhile, has emphasised that he did not accept any money. innagpur,fadnavistoldreports,“ihaveorderedaforensic probe into the audio clip that has come out in public. the matter will be thoroughly investigated to authenticate it. even Jarange-Patil has demanded an investigation. the shiv sena leaders and »ContinUed on Page 2 aBsconding gangster Himanshu Bhau has been arrested by law enforcement agencies in the United states after they were alerted by india’s central agencies about his location in las Vegas. another fugitive, neeraj faridpuria,whohadbeenevading arrest after removing his ankle bracelet tracker following his detention and release on bail this year, was also picked up. a source in the national investigation agency (nia) said himanshu Bhau was arrested in las Vegas aninterpolrednoticehadbeen issued against Himanshu and multiple teams of delhi Police and Haryana Police had been working to trace his location in the Us. “With the help of technical surveillanceandonthebasisof source-based information, his location in las Vegas was tracked down and the »ContinUed on Page 2 l randall sequeira comPleTed his mBBs From Bengaluru and in 2017 decided To seTTle in kalahandi; Police say he is accused oF insTigaTing PeoPle To make False allegaTions againsT goVT Doctor moved to Odisha to treat Adivasis, now behind bars for anti-mining protests sujit Bisoyi 16, sequeira and another antimining activist, laxman naik, were picked up by the Kalaafter comPleting his handi police from the former’s medical studies, randall se- house at Bhawanipatna. ofqueira chose a path less ficers handed them over to the travelled. leaving behind rayagada police, and sequeira mumbai,wherehegrewup,se- isnowinjudicialcustodyinthe sub-jail there, queira moved to charged with ofodisha’s Kalahandi page 1 fences ranging from district, where basic attempt to murder healthcare remains and rioting to posout of reach for session of arms. many tribals. speaking to The Indian ExWhileheworkedtoimprove healthcare access for locals, se- press,inspectorgeneral,southqueira (39) was, like several western range, akhileshvar other activists, vocal against singh said the arrests were undertaken to maintain law bauxite mining in the region. around 11 pm on october and order in the region. Bhubaneswar, October 23 anchor “at least four to five serious cases were pending against him, and he was accused of instigating others in the region to make false allegations against the state government. two tribal women have also lodged a complaint against him for instigatingthem,”singhtoldThe Indian Express. Police officers say the arrest is linked to a violent clash between tribals and the police in april over the construction of anapproachroadtothesijimali bauxite reserve in rayagada district. While sequeira wasn’t named in the fir registered in connection with the clash, which left people on both sides randall sequeira visits a patient in odisha. injured, police claimed his role was established during the investigation. originally from mangalore, Karnataka,sequeiragrewupin mumbai and completed his schooling there. He completed hismBBsfromst.John’smedical college, Bengaluru and md in internal medicine from sawai man singh medical college and Hospital, rajasthan. in 2017, he decided to settle in Kalahandi to work with ngosoperatinginthetribalregion. after a few years, he started working independently, often travelling to hard-to-reach villages to treat tribals and underJaipur stand how they live. “sequeira, rather than merely prescribing medicines to treat malaria and tuberculosis — diseases that have long been prevalent among tribals — would try to understand the underlying social, economic and environmental factors,” dr dewal sawarkar, who worked with him for several yearsinKalahandi,toldTheIndian Express. she said sequeira believed people should be empowered to make decisions about their own health issues rather than depending entirely on doctors and medicine. “He used to move from village to village holding camps for pregnant mothers and malnourished childrentoraiseawareness,address nutritional and maternal health challenges, and enable them to take an active role in improving their own health,” said dewal. sequeira, according to his friends, helped tribal students prepare for medical entrance examinations as well. accordingtosequeira’slinkedin profile, he has worked closely with adivasi communities and trained voluntary health workers on providing basic primary healthcare. “i enjoy this because it directly »ContinUed on Page 2