eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE There’s a story for everybody KOLKATA,LATECITY AUGUST18,2024 Anime, manga in India are here to stay, maybe forever. What’s behind their popularity? 16+4PAGES,`7.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES & ANDAMAN) DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT RAPE & MURDER OF JUNIOR DOCTOR AT KOLKATA HOSPITAL IMAstrikehitshealthservices; CBIquestionsex-principalagain Agency looking into why renovation work at hospital began amid probe ENS & PTI KOLKATA, AUGUST 17 WrestlerVineshPhogatisgreetedbysupportersatNewDelhi’sIGIAirportaftershereturnedfromParisonSaturday. GajendraYadav Vinesh returns: Love A village stays up to I got worth more than bestow their honours: 1,000 Olympic Golds Cash, turbans, swords NEW DELHI, AUGUST 17 NEVER HAS an athlete without a medal around her neck got the kind of grand homecoming that awaited Vinesh Phogat on Saturday. It took even the wrestler by surprise. Phogat’s return to India was delayed as she stayed back in Paristoawaittheoutcomeof her appealintheCourtof Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging her disqualification from the 50-kg gold-medalboutattheOlympics for being 100g overweight. Her appeal was dismissed on Wednesday. On Saturday, as she exited fromGateNo.18ofDelhiAirport’s Terminal 3 at around 10.30 am, Phogat seemed to be in a state of daze — the Paris trauma of the missed medal writ large on her face. Eyes puffed due to lack of sleep,cheeksshrunk,andamessy haircutgivenbyhertraineracruel reminder of the night before the finalweigh-in,shelookedaround expressionless. Then she broke into a smile. She had spotted her mother, brother, other family members and her two fellow protesters, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 3RD VOICE OF GLOBAL SOUTH SUMMIT PMMODIPROPOSES ‘GLOBAL COMPACT’TO SPURGROWTH P10 GOVTCOMMITTEDTO FAIRPOLLS:YUNUS P13 INTERVIEW: SECY GENERAL GOLAM PARWAR Jamaat says won’t be threat to India; but it’s easier said than done EXPRESS INDHAKA SHUBHAJIT ROY DHAKA, AUGUST 17 CLAIMINGTHAThisorganisation will be a “friend of India and the people of India”, the Secretary Generalof thebannedoutfitand Parwar was freed from jail two days after Hasina fled country thepremierIslamistorganisation in Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami, has said it will not be a threat to India, the India-Bangla borders CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NITIN SHARMA BALALI, AUGUST 17 IT’S BEEN a long day for 10-yearold Anshaj Kumar, a resident of Balali, aka Vinesh Phogat’s village in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district which is a three-and-ahalf hour drive away from Delhi on most days. At about 10 am, around the time Phogat’s flight from Paris landed in the Capital, hewastaskedwithguardingthe templepremisesthathad750kg of desi ghee laddoos. The wait for Phogat gets over past midnight, when she finally reachesthevillage,over12hours RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & ATRI MITRA KOLKATA, AUGUST 17 During a protest at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Partha Paul tially questioned on the hospital's response to the death of the victim. He was seen re-entering the CBI office at the CGO complex in Salt Lake with a bunch of papers and files a little before 10:30 am on Saturday and was questioned for nearly 14 hours. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 TWO TRINAMOOL Congress workers, several men in their teens or 20s, and a couple of women — these are among people identified or arrested in connection with the vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on the night of August 14, The Indian Express has found. The vandalism took place when doctors were holding a midnight protest against the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital. Facing CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Inside the Emergency ward of the hospital after it was ransacked Wednesday. File RELATED REPORTS PAGE 3 Among the gifts: Vikrant Fauji’s `21,000; Sanjay Chowkidar’s `100. Jasbir Malhi after she walked out of the Delhi airport. With every Haryana CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LAND ALLOTTED TO CM’S WIFE Karnataka Governor sanctions prosecution of CM Siddaramaiah JOHNSON TA & AKRAM M BENGALURU, AUGUST 17 KARNATAKAGOVERNORThawarchand Gehlot on Saturday accorded sanction for prosecution against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and allowed three private complainants to file cases in court seeking a probe against him over allotment of 14 housing sites in Mysuru to his wife in 2021 (when the BJP was in power) in exchange for 3.16 acre of land acquiredfromherbyMysuruauthorities. “I hereby accord sanction against Chief Minister Sri SiddaramaiahunderSection17A of the Prevention of Corruption CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPLAINED NAMIT KUMAR HEALTHCARE SERVICES across West Bengal remained crippled on Saturday, as senior doctors at public and private medical facilities, responding to a 24-hour nationwide strike called by the IMA, joined the agitating juniormedicstoprotesttherape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor. The CBI, meanwhile, questionedtheformerprincipalof RG KarMedicalCollegeandHospital Dr Sandip Ghosh for a secondround,followingtheprevious round of interrogation, which began on Friday evening and had continued till well past midnight. The body of the doctor was found in a seminar hall of the state-run hospital on August 9. Ghosh, sources said, was ini- Among accused in RG Kar vandalism, TMC men, students, gym trainer, delivery staff E What the land deal ● is about THE LAND was allotted under a special 50:50 scheme to the CM’s wife in a Vijaynagar area in Mysuru in 2021 in exchange for her land in Kesare village. The Kesari land, allegedly of Dalit families, was acquired by her brother and gifted to her. The scheme, introduced when BJP was in power, was discontinued in Oct 2023 after the urban development dept flagged it as contrary to compensation rules. Delhi HC comes to rescue of aspiring cop rejected over tattoo, opens doors for others PAGE 1 ANCHOR SOHINI GHOSH NEW DELHI, AUGUST 17 A DETERMINED youth and a recent Delhi High Court ruling have come as a ray of hope for multiple young men and women who aspired to join the Delhi Police but were rejected because of impermissible tattoos on the right forearm, which is considered the saluting arm. Nearly a year ago, in September 2023, Deepak Yadav came acrossadirectrecruitmentnotification by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on vacancies forthepostofDelhiPoliceconstable(executive)anddecidedtogive it a go. Aresidentof BaghpatinUttar Pradesh,the20-year-oldcleared The medical test for the post of Delhi Police constable was held on January 20. File the computer-based exam in December 2023. Only two hurdles remained now — the medicalexam,whichincludesaphysical fitness test, on January 20, 2024, and the removal of his mother’snamethatwastattooed on his right forearm as a child. Toavoidgettingrejectedduring the physical fitness test — sincetattoosonthesalutingforearm are not permitted — Yadav CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Kolkata