DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA HIMANSHU HARSH MOTIHARI, JULY 18 Chaitanya Baghel, son of Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel, being produced at the PMLA court in Raipur, Friday. ANI Liquor ‘scam’ probe: ED arrests Baghel’s son Chaitanya, gets his custody for 5 days crore. It is alleged to have taken place between 2019 and 2022, during the previous Congress governmentinChhattisgarhthat was helmed by Bhupesh Baghel. Around 7 am on Friday, the ED began searches at the Baghel residence at Bhilai city in Durg district. At around noon, the agency arrested Chaitanya. Speaking to the media, Chaitanya’s lawyer Faisal Rizvi said, “This matter has been going on since 2022. The first prosecution complaint (filed by the ED) was submitted in court, following which three more supplementary prosecution complaints were submitted... but neither was Chaitanya’s name mentioned nor was his statement recorded in them.” He said the ED had not summoned Chaitanya for questioning. “There is one Papu Bansal (Laxminarayan Bansal) against CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 SETTING THE tone for the NDA’s Bihar Assembly election campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday announced that a Central employment scheme providing Rs 15,000 to youth in their first private sector job will be rolled out from August 1. In contrast, the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had seized land from the poor on the falsepromiseof jobs,thePMsaid. “A few days ago, the Central government approved a major scheme.Underthisinitiative,any youngpersonreceivingtheirfirst employment opportunity in a privatecompanywillbegivenRs 15,000 from the government. This scheme is set to be implemented from August 1. The BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Governor Arif Mohammed Khan in Motihari, Friday. PTI Central Government plans to invest Rs 1 lakh crore in this programme to provide new jobs to new youngsters. Bihar’s youth willalsogreatlybenefitfromthis initiative,” Modi said at a rally in Motiharitown,theheadquarters of East Champaran district. The Union Cabinet on July 1 approved the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) scheme, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CASH ROW: INDICTED IN INQUIRY REPORT Justice Varma moves SC, challenges inquiry report indicting him ‘Parallel,extra-constitutionalmechanism’ APURVA VISHWANATH NEW DELHI, JULY 18 INSIDE GODARA, BRAR INRAJASTHAN’S MOST WANTED LIST PAGE 3 FACING AN impeachment motion following a probe into allegationsof cashbeingfoundathis official residence in New Delhi, former Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma moved the Supreme Court Friday, calling its in-house inquiry mechanism that indicted him as Justice Yashwant Varma “a parallel, extra-constitutional mechanism”. “Primarily, the In-House Procedure, adopted via a 1999 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 A LASHKAR PROXY, TRF OWNED UP ATTACK Pahalgam attack outfit TRF placed on US terror list, boosts India efforts Strongaffirmation of counter-terror cooperation, saysJaishankar SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, JULY 18 IN A significant move that strengthens India’s fight against cross-border terror, the US State Department Friday designated The Resistance Front, a shadow outfit of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba that had claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). In first remarks after Washington’s move, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar describeditasa“strongaffirmation of India-US counter-terrorism cooperation”. In a post on X with the hashtag Op Sindoor, he appreciated the decision of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department, pointing out that the TRF was a LeT “proxy” and had “claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam attack”. He said there is “zero tolerance for terrorism”. Designating an outfit as an FTOmakes financing,aiding,advising and helping such an organisationacrimeunderUSlaw. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 jktLFkku iqfyl SI HkrhZ& 2025 in% 1015 foKfIr tkjh SI NEW BATCH Syllabus, Pattern o Lrj RAS tSlk rks rS;kjh Hkh RAS fo’ks”kKksa }kjkA lsfeukj 21 tqykbZ lkseokj @ 10:15 AM 22 tqykbZ ls cSp izkjEHk Online & Offline Batch Riddhi - Siddhi, Gopalpura Bypass, Jaipur 9636977490, 0141-3555948 Exclusive Live Batch from Classroom Contact usSpringboard Academy Online Springboard Academy Jaipur ,si MkmuyksM djus ds fy, QR Code LdSu djsa fLizaxcksMZ ,dMeh ds IAS, RAS grq izekf.kr Dykl ukV~l miyC/k The Notes Hub 7610010054, 7300134518 s s s Jaipur Twenty-six people were killed in the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, a popular tourist destination in J&K, on April 22 As lines between terror outfits blur in Valley, challenges on ground BASHAARAT MASOOD SRINAGAR, JULY 18 THE DECISION by the US to designateTheResistanceFront(TRF) as a terrorist organisation is a diplomatic win for India and a message to Pakistan,butitsimpacton the ground remains to be seen,top securityofficials in the Valley believe. The decision comes three monthsafterthePahalgamterror attackthatkilled25touristsanda local ponywala. The TRF claimed responsibilityfortheattackonsocial media channels, but the NIA concluded during its investigation that all three attackers were Pakistani nationals. “It is a diplomatic win and puts Pakistan in a tight spot, but as far as the militancy is concerned, we will have to wait and ● watch. We have enough examplesfromthepast— Lashkar, Jaish and even Hizb. All of themhavebeendesignatedas E EXPLAINED PM woos Bihar youth: Rs 15,000 for first-time pvt sector employees CHAITANYA BAGHEL, son of formerChhattisgarhChief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel,wasarrestedonFridayby the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on charges of money launderinginconnectionwiththeallegedRs2,161-croreliquorscam. He was subsequently producedbeforeaspecialPrevention ofMoneyLaunderingAct(PMLA) court in Raipur and remanded in ED custody for five days. According to the ED, the alleged scam involved a syndicate ofseniorstatebureaucrats,politicians, and excise department officialswhoareaccusedofrunning a “parallel” excise department, wherein liquor was sold to the public,butnomoneycametothe stateexchequer,causingthegovernmentalossofaroundRs2,161 `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 TARGETS RJD, UNVEILS PROJECTS WORTH Rs 7,200 CRORE RAIPUR, JULY 18 POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU ● CONTINUED ON PAGE 2