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SC issues notice to
Salman on appeal
in hit-and-run case

B.S. Bassi dropped

from list of
candidates for CIC

Honda to recall
57,676 vehicles with
faulty airbags

Harper Lee, author of

To Kill a Mockingbird,
has died, aged 89

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QUOTA BACKERS RESORT TO ARSON

Army called in as Jat

protest leaves 1 dead
Shoot-at-sight
orders, curfew in
Rohtak, Bhiwani
cities of Haryana

Lawyers offering
very dangerous
proposition: Bench

NEW DELHI: Army columns

ON THE BOIL: Members of the Jat community torch a truck

during their agitation for reservation in Rohtak on Friday.

Agitators also blocked highways. PHOTO: PTI

least 70 people were said to

have been injured in Rohtak,
local sources said.
Though only one death
was officially confirmed, the
local sources said two more
people were killed in different parts of Rohtak during
the violence.
The State government,
caught unawares by the ferocity of the violence, called
an all-party meeting in the
morning but events quickly
got out of hand in Rohtak and
surrounding districts, with

the administration imposing

section 144 and blocking Internet access in these areas.
Later the government conceded the demand of the Jats
and promised to bring in a
quota Bill. Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Prakash
Dhankar said a committee
chaired by the Chief Secretary would submit its report in
the Budget session of the
Assembly.

BILL WILL HAVE LEGAL

SANCTITY | PAGE 14

very dangerous proposition that could become a

precedent for other accused.
The Supreme Court ordered the Centre and the police to provide special security arrangements at the High
Court hearing for Mr. Kumar.
A metropolitan magistrate
court refused to grant bail to
the former Delhi University
lecturer, S.A.R. Geelani, in
the sedition case connected
with a function on February
10.

KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL &

MOHAMMED IQBAL
NEW DELHI: After the Supreme
Court stopped short of hearing the bail petition of JNU
Students Union president
Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in
a sedition case, and transferred his plea to the Delhi
High Court on Friday, his lawyers rushed to the High
Court, where the hearing did
not take place because of
some technical glitches.
Though a Bench of Justices
J. Chelameswar and Abhay

ASHOK KUMAR &

VIKAS VASUDEVA

were deployed at nine locations in Haryana on Friday

and curfew was imposed in
Rohtak and Bhiwani city limits with shoot-at-sight orders,
after one person was killed in
police firing as an agitation
demanding reservation for
Jats flared into violence.
Agitators tried to torch Haryana Finance Minister Captain Abhimanyus house,
burnt vehicles and blocked
highways.
An Army official confirmed to The Hindu that
the Rohtak column has already moved and others will
move as soon as they are
ready.
It is learnt that Haryana
Chief Secretary spoke to Army Chief General Dalbir
Singh on the situation, following which Army units
were put on standby.
Curfew was imposed both
in Rohtak and Bhiwani later
in the evening. Though there
were no official figures, at

Kanhaiya knocks on High Court door

after SC declines to hear bail petition

Manohar Sapre agreed that

repeated mob violence on
the court premises against
Mr. Kumar was unusual and

extraordinary, it observed
that his lawyers, by seeking
bail directly from the Supreme Court, were offering a

THREAT IS REAL, BUT TRY

HC FIRST; BJP TO TAKE BATTLE
TO HOUSE | PAGE 14
THE EMPERORS NEW
NATIONALISM | EDITORIAL

BCCI to file affidavit

Bhuma, 3 other YSRC
in SC on Lodha report MLAs likely to join TDP
G. VISWANATH

independent intervention
applications on the recommendations they would find
difficult to comply with.
Constitutional
lawyer
K.K. Venugopal will appear
for the BCCI before the
Bench on March 4.
Since most members submitted their views on the
recommendations on January 4, the president did not
deem it necessary for them
to do it again.

MUMBAI: The BCCIs full, associate and affiliate members, without going deep into the report of the Supreme
Court-appointed
Lodha
Committee on Reforms In
Cricket, authorised secretary Anurag Thakur to file an
affidavit in the court, pointing to the anomalies and
difficulties in implementing the recommendations.
At a special general meeting here on Friday, the memBIHAR BACK AS ASSOCIATE
bers were also advised to file MEMBER | PAGE 19

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party central committee president and Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asked party
leaders from Kurnool, including deputy Chief Minister
K.E. Krishnamurthy, to be
present in Vijayawada on Saturday. The development assumes significance in the
light of reports that YSR Congress MLA Bhuma Nagi Reddy is likely to join the ruling
party anytime. Political cir-

cles are abuzz with the talk

that Mr. Nagi Reddy and three
other YSRC MLAs -- his
daughter Akhila, S.V. Mohan
Reddy and Kodumuru MLA
Mani Gandhi -- had in principle agreed to join TDP. The
TDP, it is speculated, offered a
Ministerial berth to Ms. Akhila if the Bhuma family as Mr.
Nagi Reddy's family is known,
joined the TDP.
Mr. Naidu will discuss with
party leaders measures to
strengthen the party in the
district which was once a
stronghold of TDP.

BRIEFLY
PATHANKOT ATTACK
Pakistan files case
against unnamed outfit
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has filed a
case against an unnamed
extremist group suspected of
executing the January 2 attack
on the Pathankot airbase.
Official sources said it was a
positive step towards
investigation of the attack.
NEWS | PAGE 15

CRISIS ENDS
Kalikho Pul sworn in
Arunachal CM
NEW DELHI: A few hours after
Presidents rule was lifted from
Arunachal Pradesh on Friday,
dissident Congress leader
Kalikho Pul was sworn in as
Chief Minister on Friday night.
Prior to this, both factions of the
Congress, one headed by Mr. Pul
and the other by the former
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki,
staked their claim to form a
government.
NEWS | PAGE 15

OBAMA CLEARS LAW

New sanctions slapped
on North Korea

WASHINGTON: U.S. President

Barack Obama signed into law a
piece of legislation imposing
new sanctions on North Korea
for refusing to stop its nuclear
weapons programme.
New unilateral sanctions
seek to sharpen and expand the
scope of existing sanctions
against the North, but with its
neighbour and closest ally China
opposed to it, the efficacy of the
move remains ambiguous at
best.
WORLD | PAGE 16

Rein in private schools: parents

TS pitches for increase in Assembly seats

Class I fee is four to five times higher than the fee collected by the best engineering colleges

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

R. RAVIKANTH REDDY

HYDERABAD: The Telangana

Government has taken up its
demand for increase in the
number of Assembly constituencies in the State to 153
from the existing 119, as envisaged in the Andhra Pradesh
Reorganisation Act, with the
Centre again by writing to the
Union Home Ministry.
In a letter addressed to
Union Home Secretary Rajiv

HYDERABAD: School education

in Hyderabad is the most expensive in the country, and

the class-I fee in several top
private schools is four to five
times higher than the fee paid
by students in the best engineering colleges in the State.
The Hyderabad Schools
and Parents Association
(HSPA) says schools that collect exorbitant fees violate all
the norms and the slackness
of the Government is emboldening them further. Unless
the Government takes up the
issue the schools will damage
the citys image, said HSPA
president V. Vikrant, Subramanyam, secretary, and Ashish Naredi, EC member, at a
press conference here.
For
example,
Chirec
School has increased its fee
for class one student from Rs.
1.98 lakh to Rs. 3 lakh for 201617, Manthan has increased the
fee from Rs. 1.09 lakh to R. 1.40
lakh, Glendale Academy from

Rs. 1.61 lakh to Rs. 1.95 lakhs

and Oakridge from Rs. 3.15
lakh to Rs. 3.40 lakh, the parents said, adding that similar
was the case with all middle
level schools. The increase

ranged from 20 per cent to

more than 100 percent. All
this was in gross violation of
norms and without taking the
mandatory consent of parents representatives on

school management boards,

they said. Mr. Ashish listed
out 10 government orders and
norms that none of these
schools followed with regard
to capitation fee.
Most of them would not
disclose the fee structure on
the websites and also on the
fee challans issued for payments at banks.
Two parent representatives
were adopted from their near
and dear ones and were unknown to other parents, they
said.
The parents demanded that
the report of the inquiry conducted on the fee structure of
10 schools by the Government
be made public.
We have met the Education Minister and also the officials but the response is appalling.
Whether
the
Government is with the 31
lakh school-going students or
with the school managements
is the question, they said.

Mehrishi, Chief Secretary to

Telangana Government Rajiv
Sharma said on Friday that increase in the number of Assembly seats was imperative
to strengthen democratic institutions and to ensure social
justice to people of Telangana
that came into existence on
June 2, 2014. He requested the
Central Government to initiate action to place the matter
before Election Commission
of India (ECI) for increase of

Assembly seats, as expeditiously as possible.

The letter assumes significance in the backdrop of
Union Minister M. Venkaiah
Naidus recent comments that
the Centre was examining the
issue and would take a decision after consulting the Law
Ministry.
Delimitation of Assembly
and Lok Sabha constituencies
was already done in 2008 and
the next delimitation was

scheduled only for 2026 and

the Centre is required to set
up a delimitation commission
in case it agrees to the proposal for increase in the Assembly seats in Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh.
It was one of the priority
subjects taken up by Chief
Minister K. Chandrasekhar
Rao with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently
when he visited Delhi.

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Farmers drawing water from an almost dried up canal near Dandampalli in

Nalgonda district on Friday indicates the tough times ahead this summer. -PHOTO:
SINGAM VENKATARAMANANA

Depressed student ends life

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
HYDERABAD: A final year degree

student of Nizam College

ended life by hanging himself
in the room of a private hostel
at Ashoknagar, where he had
shifted recently, the police
CM
YK

said on Friday.
Twenty-year-old Vivekananda hailing from Vijayaraghavapuram of Munugode
in Nalgonda district was pursuing B.A. programme. He
was undergoing treatment for
depression and other psycho-

logical problems, Chikkadpally Inspector B. Sudarshan

said. A suicide note purportedly written by the student
stated that he had tried to find
solution to his psychological
problem by meeting several
doctors but in vain.
HY-HY