DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 EVEN IF CONVICT, MUST FOLLOW PROCEDURE, SAYS COURT 83 111 136 68 Buch got salary from ICICI after joining SEBI: Cong; bank denies SC questions bulldozer justice, will lay down ‘pan-India’ norms for due process Jahangirpuri case hearing; bench says won’t protect encroachments on road ANANTHAKRISHNAN G NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 2 POINTING TO concerns over bulldozers being used to demolishthehousesof peopleaccused of somecrimeinsomestates,the Supreme Court on Monday said it would lay down “pan-India” guidelines on the issue. “It is a position of law. How can anybody’s house be demol- ished only because he is an accused? Even if he is a convict, it can’t be done without following the procedure as prescribed by law,” remarked Justice B R Gavai. “We propose to lay down certainguidelinesonapan-India basis so that the concerns with regard to the issues raised are taken care of,” said the bench, which included Justice K V Viswanathan. The bench also CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E E X P L A I NE D 03/09/2024 ● The UP template “BULLDOZER JUSTICE” helped UP CM Yogi Adityanath build a political brand, and was copied in other states — both BJP-ruled like MP, Assam and Haryana, and Opp-ruled like Rajasthan under Ashok Gehlot, and Maharashtra under MVA. REPORT, PAGE 8 NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, SEPT 2 EVEN AS protests continue over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the CBI on Monday arrested the institute’s former principal Sandip Ghosh and three others in a corruption case. The central agency, which has been conducting parallel probes into the rape-murder as wellasallegationsof financial irregularities at the hospital that emerged later, questioned Ghosh earlier in the day at its CGO Complex office in Salt Lake. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NETWORK BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY STRIKING GOLD Nitesh Kumar celebrates after winning the gold in the men’s singles SL3 badminton at the Paralympic Games in Paris on Monday. Reuters FULLCOVERAGE,PAGE17 AFTER LANDSLIDES, WAYANAD STUDENTS BACK AT SCHOOL RSS HINTS AT SUPPORT FOR CASTE CENSUS: ‘WELFARE, NOT POLITICAL TOOL’ PAGES 8, 9 Central forces spectators, Swati Maliwal ‘assault’ remove from Manipur: case: Relief for Kejriwal CM Biren’s son-in-law aide as SC grants bail SUKRITA BARUAH ANANTHAKRISHNAN G BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh Rajkumar, the MLA from Sagolband constituency in Imphal West, wrote that 16 months since the conflict first started in May 2023, “one expected that the days of violence were left behind with more concentrationonapoliticaldialogue tobringapermanentandpeaceful solution”. However, he said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 2 OBSERVING THAT the trial is not likely to conclude soon, the SupremeCourtMondaygranted bail to Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal’spersonalassistant Bibhav Kumar, accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the CM’s residence on May 13. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan directed that Kumar should not visit the CM’s residence. AdditionalSolicitorGeneralS V Raju, appearing for the Delhi Bibhav Kumar was accused of assaulting MP at CM’s residence Police, urged the court not to grant bail until the private witnessesareexamined,sayingthey arelikelytobeinfluencedbyhim, but the Bench did not agree. Itnoted that thereare at least 51 witnesses proposed by the prosecutionforexaminationand the conclusion of the trial will take some time. It said that CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Hospitals to hospitality, F&B to cement: Mega industry players head to Bihar SANTOSH SINGH PATNA, SEPTEMBER 2 FROM FMCG majors Britannia and PepsiCo to Tata Group’s Taj hotels to healthcare giant Medanta, several companies are making a beeline for Bihar — a state that, until a few years ago, wasstrugglingtoshedtheimage of an investment pariah. According to government officials,thestatereceivedRs12,000 UPASIKA SINGHAL, ANAND MOHAN J, PARUL KULSHRESTHA & AJOY SINHA KARPURAM NEW DELHI, BHOPAL, JAIPUR, SEPTEMBER 2 FROM A juice shop owner in Delhi to a tempo driver in Rajasthan to a loader in Madhya Pradesh — it was the demolition of several properties that came up before the Supreme Court, which on Monday said it would lay down “pan-India” guidelines on demolition of houses linked to people accused of crimes. The first of these pleas was filed by the Jamiat-Ulama-iHind on April 20, 2022, in the midst of a demolition drive following communal violence in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 VIJAY KUMAR YADAV MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 2 ADAYafterthreemen--arrested for assaulting a 72-year-old man who they accused of carrying beef inaMumbai-boundtrain— were released on bail, the Thane Government Railway Police (GRP) on Monday added the charges of dacoity and hurting religious feelings against them. Subsequently, their bail was cancelled and non-bailable warrantsissuedagainstthem.AseniorGRPofficersaidtheaccused— Akash Awhad, 30, Nitesh Ahire, 30,andJayeshMohite,21,allfrom Dhule—willbere-arrestedsoon. The trio are alleged to be part of a group of men who abused and assaulted Ashraf Ali Sayyed Hussain,72,aresidentof Jalgaon, who was travelling alone on the Dhule-CSMT Express last week. While the attackers accused Hussain of carrying beef, police said a preliminary probe found that he was carrying buffalo meat, which is not banned. Whiletheincidentisreported tohavetakenplaceonAugust28, themenwerearrestedonAugust 31,afteravideoof theassaultwas circulated on social media. They were, however, released on bail CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 2 THE CONGRESS on Monday accusedSEBIchairpersonMadhabi PuriBuchof “holdinganofficeof profit at ICICI Bank”, and receiving an income of Rs 16.80 crore between2017and2024aftershe became a whole-time member of the market regulator in 2017. However, ICICI Bank, in a statementtostockexchangessaidthe bank or its group companies have “not paid any salary or grantedanyESOPs”toBuchafter her retirement from the bank, other than her retiral benefits. Speaking at a press conference, Pawan Khera, head of PAGE 1 ANCHOR of hope for lives razed RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & SWEETY KUMARI EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE CALLING CENTRAL forces “mute spectators”, BJP MLA and Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh’s son-in-law, Rajkumar Imo Singh, has written to Home Minister Amit Shah, asking for their removal. This comes a day after violenceagainflaredupinthestate, killing two people in an attack thatpolicesaywascarriedoutby “Kukimilitants”.Policehavealso said the attackers used drones and RPGs to target a village. In his letter to Shah, Freed on bail, three set to be re-arrested for assaulting man Delhi to Ratlam: Flicker over beef suspicion CBI arrests R G Kar’s ex-principal, DELHI EXCISE POLICY CASE three others in corruption case SC gives bail to AAP’s Vijay Nair: Right to liberty is sacrosanct SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch at a CII event in Mumbai on Monday. PTI GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 2 AUG 28 INCIDENT ON MUMBAI-BOUND TRAIN THE TURNAROUND Investments between 2016 and 2022: Investments between 2022 and 2024: 353 industrial units (approximately) ` 2,500.57 crore ` 12,000 crore BIG TICKET INVESTMENTS IN LAST THREE YEARS ■ Jay Prabha Medanta Hospital, Patna: Rs800cr(2021) ■ PepsiCo, Begusarai: Rs550cr(2022) ■ Britannia Industries, Patna: Rs250cr(2023) ■ Taj City Centre, Patna: Rs500cr(2024) crore worth of investment proposals between 2022 and 2024 — significantly higher than the Rs 2,500 crore received between 2016 and 2022. Just last month, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stone for a Rs 1,600crore cement grinding unit of Ambuja Concrete North Private Ltd,asubsidiaryof AdaniGroup’s Ambuja Cements, in Nawada. “Bihar has emerged as an ideal destination for investment,” a statement from his office said. Like Adani Group’s Ambuja Cements, rivals JK Cement and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 2 Sandip Ghosh (centre), former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, after his arrest on Monday. Express After hours of questioning, Ghosh was escorted in the evening to the CBI’s Nizam Palace office, which houses the agency’s anti-corruption wing, and placed under arrest. The CBI had been questioning Ghosh, 53, for the past 15 days in connection with the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 THE SUPREME Court on Monday grantedbailtoVijayNair,whowas AAP’scommunicationsin-charge whenhewasarrestedinamoney laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, underliningthatrighttolibertyis “sacrosanct” and bail should be the rule, and jail the exception. “The right to liberty under Petitioner has been in custody for 23 months, said bench Article 21 (of the Constitution) is a sacrosanct right which needs to be respected even in cases CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AAPMLAARRESTED P9