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Juvenile gets 3 years in Delhi gang rape case

He was also guilty of murder; sent to correctional home
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Woman gangraped by cops, their friends; 4 arrested

NOIDA: A Delhi-based woman was allegedly gang raped and her male friend assaulted by two police constables and their three friends on the outskirts. Four of the accused, including the two PAC constables, have been arrested, SP Yogesh Singh said, adding that a hunt is on to nab the fth accused. The 25-year-old woman had gone to meet her property dealer friend at his office on Friday night, when the incident took place. PTI

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43 fall ill after taking midday meal
BERHAMPUR: At least 43 students were taken ill after consuming midday meal at a primary school at Aska in Ganjam district, about 45 km from here, official sources said. All the students were admitted to the Aska a hospital immediately. The food was prepared by a local women SHG. PTI

months after the gang rape and fatal assault on a 23year-old physiotherapy student on a moving bus by six persons in the Capital, Juvenile Justice Board on Saturday held the juvenile among them guilty and sent him to a correctional home for three years. He has been found guilty of rape and murder. The Board awarded him the maximum punishment provided in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act. However, he will not remain in the facility for the entire term as his stay there since his arrest in December will also be taken into account. Speaking to the media outside the JJB office, the victims parents expressed their deep anguish and shock at the unfair sentencing. This juvenile was the most brutal of the attackers. The verdict has broken our spirit. We feel cheated. In fact, a small group of protesters gath-

The juvenile coming out of the Juvenile Justice Board office after the verdict in New Delhi on Saturday.
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ered outside the JJB office, shouted slogans and demanded that the juvenile delinquent be hanged. The prosecution also said he was the most brutal of the six offenders. Speaking to the media, chief investigation officer Anil Sharma said: The juvenile delinquent has been convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to three years in a correctional home, subject to review. The brutal crime that left the victim with extensive injuries and caused her death two weeks there-

after, evoked wide-scale public protests with people coming out on the streets to demand exemplary punishment to the perpetrators. Four other accused in the case are being tried in a special fasttrack court in New Delhi and they face the death penalty. The sixth accused was found dead in his jail cell in March. The fasttrack court is expected to hand down its verdict in September.
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THAT'S THE SPIRIT: In what came as a good photo-op for shutterbugs, MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and TRS legislator T. Harish Rao were seen engrossed in an animated discussion during the launch of Metro India, a new English daily, in Hyderabad on Saturday. For all the bitter talk both the parties have been engaging in on the separate Telangana issue, the bonhomie between the leaders was a thumbs-up moment. PHOTO: MOHAMMED YOUSUF

sixth hike since June this year, State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) raised petrol price by a steep Rs. 2.35 a litre and diesel by 50 paise a litre in the face of a falling rupee and rising international crude oil prices. The actual hike, including local sales tax or VAT, will be higher and will vary from city to city. In Hyderabad, the price went up by Rs. 3.08 a litre for petrol, while the diesel price hike was 61 paise. Petrol price will go up by Rs. 2.83 to Rs. 74.10 a litre in Delhi and from Rs. 78.61 to Rs. 81.57 in Mumbai. The new price will be effective from midnight on Saturday, said State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The diesel price hike, excluding VAT, was in line with the January decision of the government allowing oil companies the freedom to raise prices in small doses every month to wipe out mounting losses. Diesel price in Delhi has been hiked by 57 paise to Rs. 51.97 per litre.

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Jagan force-fed to end fast

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HYDERABAD: The seven-day old fast by YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for a united Andhra Pradesh was foiled on Saturday afternoon when a team of doctors forcibly gave him IV uids at the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) after his condition deteriorated. The doctors force-fed him IV uids after the Chanchalguda jail authorities issued orders to this effect in view of his deteriorating health condition. He was also given antiacids and antibiotics. According to doctors at NIMS, it might take one or two days for his condition to become normal. Jagan was shifted from Chanchalguda jail to Osmania General Hospital on Thursday midnight and was brought from there to NIMS late on Friday night.

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Naidu asks Centre to start Arrest likely as Jodhpur talks on Telangana afresh police quiz Asaram
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Obama to seek Congress nod for Syria action

WASHINGTON: Delaying what had ap-

peared to be an imminent strike, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that he will seek congressional approval before launching any military action meant to punish Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons in an attack that killed hundreds. With navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea ready to strike, Mr. Obama said he had decided the U.S. should take military action, but also determined our country will be better off if Congress renders its own opinion. After Mr. Obama spoke, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said the House will consider a measure the week of September 9. AP
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YSRC leader Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy at NIMS on Saturday. PHOTO : BY ARRANGEMENT

rathi to stay at the hospital from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. On a memo led by Ms. Bharathi, the court directed the hospital authorities not to allow food and medicines brought by her into hospital, where Mr. Jagan was admitted following his illness arising out of his indenite fast launched in support of the agitation for Samaikyandhra. Bharati gets court nod His mother Vijayamma Meanwhile, the CBI spe- was also allowed to have a cial court gave permission mulaqaat with him at the to Jagans wife, Y.S. Bha- hospital by Jail authorities.

Ms. Bharathi said that Jagan did not discuss politics with her. But when she asked if he was not scared because of the deteriorating health condition, he told her that when one has to respond to a situation, it should be done wholeheartedly and not in a halfhearted manner. She said that all family members were extremely worried.
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the impressions that his party had been ambiguous over the Telangana issue, TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Saturday, called for fresh consultations with all the stakeholders before the Centre acted further on this burning issue. Addressing a press conference here on the eve of his bus yatra from Pondugula in Guntur district on Sunday to reaffirm Telugus Atma Gauravam (self-esteem), Mr. Naidu said as the Congress-led UPA government in New Delhi was responsible for the agitations in Seemandhra after the CWC resolution to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, it was its duty to resume talks with all the affected sections on both sides to nd a solution to their grievances. Referring to the daily standoff between Telangana and Seemandhra at the Secretariat and else-

where in Hyderabad, Mr Naidu alleged that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was responsible for the present state of affairs. More than the political parties, you have to talk to all the affected people, not just once but even four or ve times, Mr. Naidu said, when asked what he expected the Central government to do to reduce tensions in the aftermath of the CWC decision. He will be explaining these aspects to the people during his bus yatra, the rst phase of which would be for about 10 days.

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Police officials from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, arrived at the ashram of Asumal Sirumalani alias Asaram Bapu, accused of child rape, in Indore late on Saturday. They went into the ashram at 8.30 p.m., escorted by the Indore police. During a satsang which began at 9.30 p.m., Asaram reportedly asked his followers to remain calm. The Jodhpur police are too intelligent to arrest me, he was quoted as saying. At

the end of the meeting, he asked officers to conclude the interrogation by 10 p.m. or else resume it on Sunday. When this report was led shortly after midnight, interrogation was in progress and police deployment was building up. Barricades were being erected and an ambulance was brought in. According to a senior police officer, Asaram was likely to be arrested...
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Pray, what wrong did I do, asks atheist teacher

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MUMBAI: When all in his school fold their hands during prayer, Sanjay Salve keeps his hands rmly behind his back. The 41-year-old English teacher in Nashik is ghting imposition of prayers during school hours. Only the national anthem should be played in school, he says. But Mr. Salve has paid a price for his deance. Though eligible for a higher pay grade since 2008 the year after his revolt he has been denied it for indiscipline. The management of the statefunded Savitribai Phule Secondary School sullied his 2008-09 Condential

FIGHTING IT OUT: Sanjay Salve says compulsory prayer is contrary to Article 28 (3) of the Constitution. The English teacher, who embraced Buddhism, is seen at his home in Nashik. PHOTO: ALOK DESHPANDE

Report. It was the same management which gave him excellent CRs in the preceding 12 years. And

fellow teachers with whom I once had cordial relations now avoid me, he says. Ironically, the school has

been named after one of Maharashtras greatest 19th Century social reformers. Savitribai was the rst woman teacher in the rst womens school and founded one for girls from the marginalised castes. Mr. Salve is an assistant teacher in the school run by the Mahatma Phule Samaj Shikshan Sanstha. Of nearly 1,600 students here, almost 60 per cent are either OBCs or Dalits. Around 35 per cent are Muslims. Mr. Salve is a Dalit who embraced Buddhism. The school management is overwhelmingly OBC. Mr. Salve, who joined the school in 1996, says the national anthem can instil more

values in students. In any case, compulsory prayer is contrary to Article 28 (3) of the Constitution. Nor is there scope for it in the Maharashtra Secondary School Code. He has sought redress from the Bombay High Court. The next hearing in the case whose outcome could seriously impact the debate over religious preaching and prayer in schools is on September 6. The son of poor parents who never nished school, Mr. Salve is a B.A. B.Ed. His wife is completing an M.Phil. Savitribai Phule would have been proud of them. The school isnt...
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