DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES BY UNNY EVEN IF CONVICT, MUST FOLLOW PROCEDURE, SAYS COURT 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 Buch got salary from ICICI after joining SEBI: Cong; bank denies 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 BUSINESS AS USUAL `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ● 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 6 Delhi to Ratlam: Flicker of hope for lives razed 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 7 DELHI EXCISE POLICY CASE SC gives bail to AAP’s Vijay Nair: Right to liberty is sacrosanct EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 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 Article 21 (of the Constitution) is a sacrosanct right which needs to be respected even in cases where stringent provisions are invoked.Thepetitionerhasbeen in custody for 23 months and is Petitioner has been in custody for 23 months, said bench incarcerated as an undertrial,” said a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti. “There cannot be a mode of punishment without a trial being commenced. The universal propositionof ‘bailbeingtherule and jail being the exception’ will be entirely defeated if the petitioneriskeptincustodyasanundertrial for such a long duration CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CBI arrests R G Kar’s ex-principal, UP sacks 26 doctors for ‘negligence in duty’ three others in corruption case RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & SWEETY KUMARI SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch at a CII event in Mumbai on Monday. PTI 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 wellasallegations of financial irregularities at the hospital that emerged later, questioned Ghosh earlier in the day at its CGO Complex office in Salt Lake. NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, SEPT 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NETWORK 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,PAGE 15 AFTER LANDSLIDES, WAYANAD STUDENTS BACK AT SCHOOL RSS HINTS AT SUPPORT FOR CASTE CENSUS: ‘WELFARE, NOT POLITICAL TOOL’ PAGES 7, 6 Central forces spectators, Freed on bail, 3 set to be remove from Manipur: re-arrested for assaulting CM Biren’s son-in-law man over beef suspicion SUKRITA BARUAH GUWAHATI, SEPTEMBER 2 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, VIJAY KUMAR YADAV 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 withmore concentrationonapoliticaldialogue tobringapermanentandpeaceful solution”. However, he said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 2 ADAYafterthreemen--arrested for assaulting a 72-year-old man who they accused of carrying beef ina Mumbai-bound train— 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 Wolves in Bahraich kill 8, evade drones, nets and cages; 35 villages live in terror PAGE 1 ANCHOR Bahraich Mahasi tehsil UTTAR PRADESH MANISH SAHU BAHRAICH (UTTAR PRADESH), SEPTEMBER 2 EVERYTHING TOOK place in a matter of seconds, say locals. A thud broke Meera Devi’s sleep around 3 am on a Monday. Still half asleep,shesuddenlyrealised that her two-year-old daughter Anjali, who had slept next to her the night before, was missing. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LUCKNOW, SEPTEMBER 2 KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 2 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE THE CONGRESS on Monday accused SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch of “holding an office of profit at ICICI Bank”, and receiving an income of Rs 16.80 crore between 2017 and 2024 after she became a wholetime member of the market regulator in 2017. However, ICICI Bank, in a statement to stock exchanges said the bank or its group companies have “not paid any salary or granted any ESOPs” to Buch after her retirement from the bank, other than her retiral benefits. Speaking at a press conference, Pawan Khera, head of Congress media and publicity department, alleged: “In summary, the total amount received by the SEBI chairperson from ICICI from her time of joining SEBI in 2017 up until today total Rs 16,80,22,143, which is shockingly 5.09 times the income she received from SEBI during the same period, which amounts to Rs 3,30,28,246.” “While people place their hopes in SEBI whose chairperson is appointed directly by the EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE RELATED REPORT Policemen at Sisayya village in Bahraich district. Manish Sahu CM TAKES STOCK: ‘SHOOTING SHOULD BE THE LASTRESORT’ PAGE 3 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 STATING THAT negligence in medical duties would not be toleratedunderanycircumstances, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak has ordered the dismissal of 26 governmentdoctorsforallegednegligence, absence from duty, and repeated disregard for orders issued by higher authorities. Pathak,whoholdstheHealth Department portfolio in the BJP government in the state, has instructed the principal secretary (medical and health) to proceed withthedismissalprocedureand give one month's notice to the Negligence in medical duties won’t be tolerated: Dy CM Pathak doctors.“Ourgovernmentiscommitted to providing high-quality healthcareservicestothepeople ofthestate.Anynegligenceinthis regardwillbedealtwithstrictly,” Pathak said. The 26 doctors are posted at variousprimaryandcommunity health centers, with many attached to Chief Medical Offices. “Thesackeddoctorsarefromseveral districts, including Jalaun, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2