DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2024, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES ONE DIRECTION’S LIAM PAYNE DIES AFTER ‘FALL’ FROM HOTEL BALCONY BANGLA TRIBUNAL ISSUES WARRANT AGAINST HASINA SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT VALID: MAJORITY RULING 4-1, SC upholds citizenship provision for migrants to Assam from East Pak Bench calls for strict implementation of laws against illegal migration PAGE 12 ANANTHAKRISHNAN G EXPLAINED UPHOLDING THE Constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which essentially sets March 24, 1971 as the cut-off date for entry into Assamforgrantofcitizenship,the Supreme Court Thursday called for stricter implementation of laws against illegal immigration NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY andjudicialmonitoringoftheimplementationofimmigrationand citizenship legislations. In a 4-1 ruling by a Constitution Bench, the majority verdict by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices Surya Kant, M M Sundresh and Manoj SC upholds Parliament primacy, but also flags fraternity as key factor APURVA VISHWANATH NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 E CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BY FRAMING the fraught citizenship question in ● Constitutional definitions of fraternity and pluralEXPLAINED THE WORLD `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 THE DISSENT PAGE 7 ity and firmly establishing the cut-off date for citizenship of those in Assam as March 24, 1971, theSupreme Court’s ruling Thursdaypushesforaninclusive view on who is a citizen. “Our reading of the Constitution and precedents is CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LAW 4 ISSUESIN ASSAM VERDICT PAGE 9 SAINI IS HARYANA CM AGAIN INSIDE Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and others at the swearing-in ceremony of the new state government, in Panchkula on Thursday. Jasbir Malhi AKHILESH HEADS TO MAHARASHTRA, HOPES ‘MORE SEATS’ FROM OPP BLOC HC DEFERS HEARING ON MILKIPUR PLEA REPORT,PAGE7 PAGE 6 5 ACCUSED ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO FLEE TO NEPAL: POLICE Shraddha Kapoor to 2 accused in Bahraich violence held after unveil Screen; will be face of first digital cover being shot in leg, police say they fired first EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE BOLLYWOOD ACTOR Shraddha Kapoor will unveil The Indian Express's iconic film magazine Screen on Friday. The unveiling of Screen, which returns to the group after 11 years, will kick off with its first-ever digital cover featuring the Stree 2 star. Theevent,whichwillbeheld at the Four Seasons Hotel in Worli,willalsofeaturecelebrated namesfromtheHindifilmindustry, including filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, and actors VikrantMasseyandVijayVarma. Screen has been a leading voice in Indian entertainment since1949.Themagazine,which has covered the Indian film in- TWO OF the five persons arrested in connection with the violence that broke out in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district were shot at by police personnel on Thursday when they allegedly triedtoescapebyopeningfireafter they were taken to the Nanpara area to recover a weapon that police suspect was used during Sunday’s violence. The two accused, identified as Mohammad Taleem (28) and Mohammad Sarfaraz (32), were “seriously injured” and are undergoing treatment, police said. Theywereamongfivepeople arrested on Thursday in connectionwiththeclashesthatstarted on Sunday evening in the RELATED REPORT MANISH SAHU MUMBAI, OCTOBER 17 LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 17 Shraddha Kapoor dustry closely over the decades, will nowbebackinanewavatar. Aftertheunveilingof thedigitalcover,theeventwillhosttwo panel discussions. 'Screen Live' will see Shraddha take centre stageasshediscussesherlife,career and stardom, especially afterthesuccessof Stree2,thehorror-comedythatmadehistoryat CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 TENSION IN DEORIA AS 2 STABBED DURING IDOL IMMERSION PROCESSION, 2HELD PAGE 3 Policemen carry the suspects after an encounter in Bahraich district, Thursday. Express FOILED PLOT TO KILL PANNUN Person listed in US indictment no longer with Govt: MEA, State Dept EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 IN THE first official confirmation, both India and the United States onThursdaysaidapersonidentified as “CC1” in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment — linked to an alleged plot to kill US-based Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun—was“nolongeranem- Gurpatwant Singh Pannun ployeeoftheIndiangovernment”. The Ministry of External Affairs' spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also confirmed the visit of the high-level Indian enquiry committee -- established to review the evidence shared by the USgovernmentregardingthealleged involvement of Indian nationalNikhilGuptaandanIndian official in the Pannun plot. The visit was first announced by the US on Monday. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 RELATED REPORT PAGE 8 Maharajganj area of Bahraich, duringwhicha22-year-oldman was killed. The others arrested were identified as Abdul Hameed(62),MohammadFahin (19),andMohammadAfzal(45). Policearealsoplanningtoinvoke the National Security Act (NSA) against the accused. TheclashesonSundaybegan after some local residents allegedly asked for music to be turned off as a Durga idol CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Nawaz: Jaishankar visit good opening, India & Pak need to move forward Wants Modi to visit Pak, says ‘let’s pick up the threads where we left’ SHUBHAJIT ROY LAHORE, OCTOBER 17 UNDERLINING THAT India and Pakistan should “bury the past” and “think of the future”, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Islamabad for the SCO meetingwasa“goodbeginning” and a “good opening” and the twocountries“shouldmoveforward from here”. Sharif, brother of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and chief of the PML(N) which leads the ruling coalition, told a group of visiting Indian journalists: “Baat jo hai aise hi badhti hai… baat khatam nahi honi chahiye… achcha hota agar Modi saab khud tashreef laate (This is how talks move forward, talks should not stop, it would have been better if Mr(Narendra) Modihadcome himself)” for the SCO meeting. Sharif met the journalists at Former Pak PM Nawaz Sharif theofficeof theChief Minister of Pakistan Punjab where Maryam Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and CM, was present. Statingthatthey“shouldpick up the threads where we left” — he was referring to his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi who made a sudden visit to Pakistan in December 2015 — Sharif said, “We have lost 75 years, now (we) should think of the next 75 years.” “I tried to mend the relationship, but they were disrupted again and again,” he said – the disruptions were a reference to the Kargil war and the attacks in India by Pakistan-based terrorists following his meetings with CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Hamas leader Sinwar, architect of October 7 attack, killed in Gaza: Israeli forces confirm ASSOCIATED PRESS DEIR AL-BALAH (GAZA STRIP), OCTOBER 17 ISRAELI FORCES in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run acrosshiminabattle,onlytodiscover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year. Sinwar has topped Israel’s mostwantedlistsincethebeginningof theIsrael-Hamaswarjust over a year ago, and his killing strikes a powerful blow to the militantgroup.Therewasnoimmediate confirmation from Hamas of his death. The military confirmed Sinwar’s death after conducting DNA and other tests on a body thatitsaidwasamongthreemilitants killed Wednesday during Yahya Sinwar operations in Gaza. Foreign Minister Katz called Sinwar’s killing a “military and moral achievement for the Israeli army,” saying it would “create the possibility to immediately release the hostages.” AnIsraelisecurityofficialsaid it appeared that the man who turned out to be Sinwar was killedinabattle,notinaplanned CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DETAILED REPORT PAGE 12 JNU plans Shivaji centre: Lessons from his era on Akhand Bharat VIDHEESHA KUNTAMALLA NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 THE JAWAHARLAL Nehru University (JNU) is planning to start a 'Centre of Excellence' named after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj,whichwilldrawlessons from his era to understand the “concept of Akhand Bharat” and his“struggleforHindaviSwaraj”, The Indian Express has learnt. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Centre for Security & Strategic Studies in the School of InternationalStudies,whichwill besupportedbytheMaharashtra government,willfocusonteaching Indian strategic thought, Marathamilitaryhistory,Shivaji’s naval strategy and guerilla warfare among other subjects, accordingtotheproposalreviewed by The Indian Express. The centre is expected to offer diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate courses starting July 2025. When contacted, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, Dean of School of International Studies at JNU, told The Indian Express: “The idea tostartthecentreoriginatedfrom theVice-Chancellorandsomefacultymembers…TheMaharashtra government too wanted to commemorate the thinking of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and hismaritimestrategieswhichare internationally recognised.” Asked why Shivaji was chosen, Mattoo said: “The mandate of the school is to teach security CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 10 yrs ago, how Delhi HC helped a boy with rare disease live, dream PAGE 1 ANCHOR SOHINI GHOSH NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 17 SITTING ON the ground floor of his house in Ranhola, Delhi's dust bowl where industrial chimneys paint the skies sooty black, Mohammad Ahmed, 17, is studying before dinner. A decade ago, then sevenyear-old Ahmed, who suffers from Gaucher’s disease (GD), was pleading before the Delhi High Court that he wanted to be “alive” to live his dream — to serve in the Army. The teenager, who has been receiving free enzyme replacement therapy for his rare disease since a 2014 verdict, tells The IndianExpress,“IrealisedthatjoiningtheArmywasimpracticalbecause I probably would not pass the physical test. The next best thing, I thought, was to become a doctor because doctors are the reason why I am alive today.” Just like it had in Ahmed’s case a decade ago, on October 4 this year, the court came to the rescue of over 100 persons suffering from rare diseases across the country. Issuing a slew of di- rections,startingwithaskingthe Centre to set up a corpus of Rs 974 crore to be utilised for the treatment and other needs of those suffering from rare diseases, the court relied on Ahmed’s 2014 case, Mohd Ahmed(Minor)v.Unionof India, to establish that the “right to health is part of right to life”. Back at their two-storey house, Ahmed’s parents praised the recent court directive as “good”. Recalling his own struggle, Ahmed’s father Sirajuddin says, “The 2014 verdict and our advocate Ashok Aggarwal came as divine intervention for my wife and me because they al- Mohammad Ahmed with his father Sirajuddin and his mother Anwari Begum at their Delhi house. Amit Mehra lowed our son to live. We had lost five children before Ahmed got the help he needed.” Gaucher’s Disease (GD) is a rare genetic disorder caused by the deficiency of anenzymethat helps break down fats in cells. The disease affects vital organs anditssymptomsincludedevelopmental delays, seizures, dementia,blindness,enlargedliver and spleen, pulmonary and cardiac problems, and abnormal bone growth. While there is no cure for GD, treatments like enzymereplacementtherapy,substrate reduction therapy, bone marrowtransplant,etc.,helppatients manage its symptoms. Ahmed’s mother Anwari Begumsayshewasfouryearsold whenhewasdiagnosedwithGD at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. The diagnosis, she says, saw her husband,whodroveanautorickshawthen,runfrompillartopost — including making representations, doing rounds of hospitals and seeking recommendations from elected representatives — to get help for their son’s treatment. In 2012, the Delhi government finally gave Rs 4.80 lakh as a“one-timerelief”,enablingthen five-year-old Ahmed to receive his first dose of therapy. The amountcoveredonlyonemonth of therapy, whereas Ahmed requires it all his life. HissisterAarzuTamanna,21, says her father, now an Urdu tutor, approached the Delhi High Court in 2013. “I remember he was worried for months about how he would pay for Ahmed’s therapy. I recall seeing him exhausted and in tears, almost giving up... Ahmed used to be very sick and would go to school just once a week then. The school wouldkeepwonderingabouthis absence. There was very little awarenessaboutGDthen.When everything failed, my father moved the Delhi High Court,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lucknow