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 SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2024, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES Delhi L-G sanctions prosecution under UAPA of Arundhati Roy, former professor ● `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 MEETS BIDEN, TRUDEAU, OTHERS ON G7 SUMMIT SIDELINES Victory of the entire democratic world: PM to G7 on election win SaxenaactsonFIRlodgedin2010that Pitches India as alleged‘provocativespeechesinpublic’ Global South’s voice, bringing its EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE priorities and NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 FIR over speech on concerns to world DELHI LIEUTENANT Governor J&K in Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena has sanctionedtheprosecutionofauthoractivist Arundhati Roy and Dr SheikhShowkatHussain,former professorattheCentralUniversity of Kashmir, under Section 45 (1) of the stringent Unlawful Activities(Prevention)Actinconnection with a 2010 FIR over “provocative speeches in public” at a New Delhi auditorium. The FIR, registered on a complaint by social activist Sushil Pandit in 2010, accused Roy and Hussain of delivering provocative speeches at a conference or- auditorium ganized under the banner of ‘Azadi-TheOnlyWay’onOctober 21 that year at the Little Theatre Group (LTG) Auditorium on Copernicus Marg in New Delhi. In October 2023, the Lt Governor granted sanction under Section 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prosecute theaccused for theoffences of promoting enmity between different groups and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 UAPA bypasses statute of limitations, top court stay on sedition law APURVA VISHWANATH NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 THE INVOCATION of stringent UAPA charges, 14 years after an FIR was first registered against author-activist Arundhati Roy and Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain,formerprofessor at the Central University of Kashmir, for allegedly “delivering provocative speeches in public”, allows the state to bypass the statute of limitations. InOctoberlastyear,theDelhi LtGovernorhadinthesamecase granted sanction to prosecute Roy and Hussain under IPC sec- tions 153A, 153B and 505. These provisions, the trifecta often invoked to deal with hate speech cases, all carry a maximum sentence of up to three years. However, under Section 468 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, courts are barred from taking cognizance of offences which are brought after an undue delay or after the lapse of ● the period of limitation. The period of limitation, if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding one year but not exceeding three years, is three years under the statute. This EXPLAINED E SWEETY KUMARI KOLKATA, JUNE 14 NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ALMOST TWO years after IIT Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmedwasfounddeadinahostel room on campus, it has now emerged that he was murdered. A gunshot wound and a stab wound have been found on his neck, according to a report of a forensic expert who conducted a second autopsy of the body on Calcutta High Court’s order. The expert’s analysis along with the second autopsy report were submitted in the court in May this year. The expert is expectedtofilehisfinalreportwhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Pope Francis at the G7 Outreach Summit in Apulia, Italy, on Friday. In a post on X, Modi said he invited the Pope to visit India. ANI Way to peace is through dialogue and diplomacy: PM to Ukraine President SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 Prime Minister Modi meets US President Joe Biden in Apulia on Friday. ANI EIGHT DAYS after they spoke on phone,PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Friday on the sidelines of the G7 Summit. 128 Kuwait building fire: Tears, grief at home as remains of 46 Indians are returned to India SHAJU PHILIP 194 78 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 14 AN INDIAN Air Force aircraft on Friday brought backthe remains of the 46 Indians who died in Wednesday’s fire at an apartment building in Kuwait. The aircraft first landed at Kochi airport, where the bodies of the23victimsfromKeralaand seven from Tamil Nadu were brought out. The remains of the others were flown to Delhi by the same aircraft. At Kochi airport, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his Cabinet colleagues, Opposition CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 1 ANCHOR THE WORLD CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 In Ernakulam, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and others pay last respects to the Indians who died in the Kuwait fire incident on June 12 . ANI A PRIVATE legal firm which gave opinion favouring the GovernmentRailwayPolice’s(GRP)ownership of the Ghatkopar land where a hoarding collapsed on May 13, killing 17 persons was paiditsfeesbyEgoMediaPvtLtd, the company which owned the hoarding, according to Special Investigation Team (SIT) officers probing the case. The opinion by the legal firm thattherulesof theRailwaysand CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SUKRITA BARUAH GUWAHATI, JUNE 14 AROUND TWO years after she first got a call that her 23-yearold son Faizan had been found dead on the IIT Kharagpur campus, Rehana Ahmed’s life still revolves around trying to get justice for her only son. Faizan’s partially decomposed body had been found in a hostelroomontheIITKharagpur campus—nottheoneallottedto him — on October 14 2022 and initial reports suggested that he died by suicide. Ego Media paid legal firm that gave opinion favouring GRP: probe MUMBAI, JUNE 14 the court takes up the case for hearing again next week. According to the report prepared by Dr A K Gupta, Faizan’s neck showed signs of a gunshot woundontheupperleftsideand ‘I could never have imagined that my boy was tortured like this’ GHATKOPAR HOARDING COLLAPSE MOHAMED THAVER Faizan Ahmed, 23, was a third-year student not of the BMC would apply for the plot of land helped ensure that Ego Media hoarding sized 140X120 feet did not have to adhere to BMC rules when it came to maximum permitted size of 40X40 feet and neither had to pay them. Eventually, it was revealed that the land belonged to the Maharashtra government andnotRailways, and BMC rules should have applied. A police officer part of the probe said, “When we questioned GRP officials on why they said that Railway rules would CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Faizan’s mother Rehana had alleged foul play, ragging But Rehana and the rest of her family alleged foul play right fromthestart,sayingthathehad been subjected to ragging on CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEET probe in Bihar ‘suggestive of a paper leak’ SANTOSH SINGH PATNA, JUNE 14 THE ECONOMIC Offences Unit (EOU) in Bihar, which is probing allegations of a paper leak in the National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test (NEET) held on May 5, has said its investigation is “suggestive of a paper leak”. SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress, Additional Director General of Police, EOU, N H Khan said, “We hadaskedasetofquestionstothe CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SC SEEKS CENTRE, NTA RESPONSE PAGE 7 More students, women emigrating from Kerala: Survey SHAJU PHILIP THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 14 PUTIN VOWS TRUCE IF UKRAINE EXITS OCCUPIED AREAS, DROPS NATO BID P14 Modi said India continues to encouragepeacefulresolutionof the Russia-Ukraine conflict through dialogue and diplomacy, and reiterated that Delhi will continue to do everything within its means to support a peaceful solution. Thetwoleadersweremeeting CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 156 15/06/2024 Death of student at IIT Kharagpur was not suicide, autopsy confirms murder Gunshot, stab wounds found on neck of 23-yr-old from Tinsukia in Assam SHUBHAJIT ROY PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi met US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in pull-aside meetings Friday on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Apulia, Italy. This was their first meeting since the G20 Summit in New Delhi last year andallegationsof theIndiangovernment’sinvolvementinassassinationplotsof Khalistaniseparatists in the US and Canada. On his meeting with the US President, Modi, in a post on X, said it’s “always a pleasure to meet”Biden.“IndiaandUSAwill keepworkingtogethertofurther global good,” he said. US NSA Jake Sullivan is expected in New Delhi early next weektoironoutdifferencesover the alleged assassination plot against a Khalistan separatist, and move forward in bilateral relations. OnhismeetingwithTrudeau, it was a cryptic one line with a photograph of the two leaders shaking hands, “Met Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau at the G7 Summit,” Modi said in his post. Hoursbeforethesemeetings, Modi showcased the scale of Indian elections as “the biggest festival of democracy in the world”, and framed his “historic victory” as a “victory of democracy” and “victory of the entire democratic world”. This is an important framing, WAS FOUND DEAD IN HOSTEL IN OCT 2022 SIGNIFICANTRISEinstudentmigration,indicationsof saturation in international migration, increase in the number of returning emigrants, growth in female emigration and surge in remittance to Kerala after the Covid19 pandemic are some of the highlights of the Kerala Migration Survey (KMS) 2023. The report of the KMS-2023, by the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD)-Thiruvananthapuram, waspresentedFridayattheLoka KeralaSabha,anevent hostedby the state government of Kerala to bring Malayali diaspora living around the globe. The study said the number of emigrants from Kerala is estimated to be 2.2 million, closely aligning with the 2.1 million recordedintheKMS2018.Thisstability in international migration overthelastfiveyearsisinteresting given the overall declining trend observed over the past decade in thepreviousroundsof KMS. The global Malayali diaspora is estimated to be 5 million, whereas the Malayali diaspora outside Kerala but within India is estimated at 3 million. Although there is a slight increase of 32,388 emigrants in 2023, 9 out of the 14 districts in Kerala observed a considerable decline in the number of emigrants when compared to 2018, indicating a saturation of international migration. Despite expectations of a further decline in The global Malayali diaspora is estimated to be 5 million. File this round of KMS, a significant rise in student emigration has substantially contributed to maintaining emigration levels. The survey said the number of student emigrations has doubled from 129,763 in 2018 to about250,000in2023.“Thisnotableincreaseinstudentemigration underscores a significant shiftinthedemographicsof emigrants from Kerala, wherein there hasbeen an increase in the number of emigrants leaving at a very young age, as early as 17 years,” said the report. The KMS 2023 shows that students constitute 11.3 percent of total emigrants from Kerala, indicating that a growing number of younger individuals are choosing to emigrate, particularly for education abroad. Theproportionoffemaleemigrants increased from 15.8 per cent in 2018 to 19.1 per cent in 2023. Female migration has further seen a shift from GCC countriestoEuropeandotherWestern nations as destination countries, accounting for 40.5 per cent. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2