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Guj meet today Paper trail could delay poll
on power plants
The Gujarat government is
scheduled to discuss with results by 3 hrs: EC sources
lenders on Monday a future
course for the Tata and Adani
groups imported coal-fired
power plants that have fallen
100% VVPAT
into dire straits. P 8
Use In Gujarat,
Ukhand town on boil
after Kedarnath pic: HP Polls Likely
Communal tension erupted
at Satpuli town in Uttarak- Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com
hands Pauri Garhwal district
on Sunday after a boy from New Delhi: As the Election
the minority community Commission prepares for a
allegedly posted an in- 100% rollout of VVPATs and
mandatory counting of paper
flammatory picture of the
trail slips in a fixed percenta-
Kedarnath shrine on his
ge of polling stations across
Facebook account. P 6
all constituencies, a prelimi-
Nainital hotels face nary estimation by the watch-
closure: The Uttarakhand dog indicates the move will le-
HC has directed the Nainital ad to a three-hour delay in de-
administration to seal by claration of poll result.
September 15 resorts and According to sources in
homestays which do not the commission, an internal
have adequate parking committee set up by EC to dis-
space. The order has left cuss the modalities of fully
hoteliers in the lake town VVPAT-based polls and pro-
alarmed. P 6 posed matching of paper trail
with EVM count in a few pol-
ling stations of each assem-
bly segment, is looking at va-
rious options regarding when
the paper trail count should
Darjeeling
erupts again,
four cops hurt
Darjeeling: Sporadic violen-
ce and arson, which has kept
RULES ON COUNTING OF SLIPS SOON
EC likely to release
guidelines on counting of
VVPAT trail soon, enabling its
rollout in Gujarat and
Himachal polls this end
All EVMs will have paper
trails but EC panel favours
mandatory counting of slips in
around 4-5% of poll stations
If slips are counted before
EVMs, announcement of poll
trends will be delayed by 3
hours, say EC sources
be scheduled.
If it is to take place first,
as in the case of postal ballots,
the first trends may not be av-
ailable before 11am. As of
now, EVM count throws up
initial trends within half-an-
hour of the start of coun-
ting, an EC functionary told
TOI.
The functionary said the
panel also foresees the possi-
bility of tension between sup-
porters of rival parties at the
Jharkhand Chief Justice retires,
finds his order overruled NRG woman, three children
Quashing Came
If the slips are counted in
the end, it will hold up results
by 3 hours
Panel says AAPs demand to
count paper trails in 25% of
polling stations impractical, as
itll lead to 26-hr delay in results
counting centres, given the
long wait till 11am before they
can know which way the poll
outcome is going.
Even if the counting of
paper slips is undertaken at
the end of the EVM count, the
declaration of poll result will
still have to wait for three ho-
urs more, an EC official said.
The estimation of a three-
hour delay in results is based
on the fact that this is the av-
erage time taken to complete
ron-in-chief of the first two bo-
one round of manual coun-
ting.
EC is expected to release
the guidelines on counting
of VVPAT trail soon, enab-
ling its introduction in the
Gujarat and Himachal polls
due this year-end. We deci-
ded not to go for an amend-
ment of rules as the process
would take longer, said an
EC official.
The EC committee is loo-
king at mandatory counting
of paper slips in no more than
4-5% of the polling stations in
each constituency. Aam Aad-
mi Party, incidentally, wants
this percentage to be fixed at
25%. This is impractical as it
would delay counting and de-
claration of results by as
much as 26 hours, said an EC
functionary.
It is still being discussed if
polling stations for paper trail
counting may be picked ran-
domly or in consultation with
the candidates.
Continued on P 7
uld have a deleterious effect on
Nitish deals 2nd
blow, will skip
oppn VP meet
Sanjay.Ojha@timesgroup.com
Patna: In another jolt to ef-
forts to mend opposition
unity and put
up a joint can-
didate for vice-
president, Bi-
har chief mini-
ster Nitish Ku-
mar has decided to skip a
meeting called by non-NDA
parties on Tuesday. He had
similarly given a meeting to
discuss the opposition presi-
dential nominee a miss.
The CM is reported to be
still recovering from a viral
infection, though political
circles are seeing his cur-
rent silence in political
light. Significantly, a mee-
ting of the JD(U) organisa-
tion, which will include sta-
te legislators and MPs, has
been scheduled for Tuesday
in Patna.
The CM has so far offered
no comment on the CBI re-
gistering a case against his
ally RJD chief Lalu Prasad
and his family members.
With Nitish reported to
Tejashwi wont
resign, says RJD
R JDs Raghunath Jha has
ruled out the resignation
of Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi
Prasad Yadav over a
corruption case FIR, saying,
Let the BJP take action
against Uma Bharti and L K
Advani first.
be unwell, he is unlikely to
make any public comments
on Monday though he retur-
ned to the state capital on
Sunday from Rajgir where,
his aides said, he was res-
ting. He had left Patna aro-
und the time opposition pre-
sidential candidate Meira
Kumar reached the city.
The JD(U) leader's ac-
tions are being watched clo-
sely as his decision to back
NDAs presidential nominee
Ram Nath Kovind took the
wind out of the opposition's
attempts to put up a "united"
front.
Continued on P 7
India slams Pak
for glorifying
Wani as martyr
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: India on Sunday
slammed Pakistan for making
a martyr of Hiz-
bul Mujahideen
terrorist Bur-
han Wani, who
was killed on Ju-
ly 8 last year.
Criticising the Pakistani
government for glorifying the
dead terrorist, MEA spokes-
person Gopal Baglay tweeted,
First, Foreign Office of Pa-
kistan read from banned LeT's
script. Now, Pakistan COAS
(army chief) glorifies Burhan
Wani. Pakistan's terror sup-
port and sponsorship need to
be condemned by one and all.
Baglay's comments came a
day after Pakistani army chief
Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa
praised Wani. Pakistani PM
Nawaz Sharif too paid trib-
utes to Wani, saying his death
infused a new spirit in the
struggle for freedom in the
Kashmir Valley.
Meanwhile, Pakistan
summoned India's deputy
high commissioner in Islama-
bad for the second consecutive
day over alleged ceasefire vio-
lations along the LoC.
Continued on P 7

Two 8-yr-olds among 3

raped in Delhi: Delhis
infamy as Indias rape capital
was reinforced when three
brutal sexual assaults came
to light on Sunday. Two of the
survivors are minors and the
third a mentally challenged
woman. P 8
Maha waiver wont
cover small loans: The
Maharashtra governments
ambitious loan waiver sche-
me has left out the weakest
section of farmers in the
state. P 8
Colour blind can study
medicine: Two years after
two students were barred
from taking admission in a
Tripura medical college, an
SC panel of experts has
concluded that students who
are colour blind
should be allowed to study
medicine.
Nagaland CM strikes
back, sacks 4 ministers: A
day after former chief mini-
ster T R Zeliangs move to
stage a coup dtat, Naga-
land CM and ruling Naga
Peoples Front president
Shurhozelie Liezietsu struck
back on Sunday, sacking four
cabinet ministers and su-
spending them from the
party along with six other
MLAs. P 6
WEATHER
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Min
26.4 (0)
Ahmedabad Forecast: Rain or
thundershowers would occur towards
evening or night. Maximum temperature
will be around 36C
Times Classifieds | P6
the Hills on the boil for the last
25 days, continued on Sunday
even as Army columns kept a
close watch on the funeral ral-
lies in Darjeeling and Sonada.
A huge mob set ablaze a BDO
office and a police camp at
Pokribong, injuring four poli-
ce personnel. Cops said fire-
arms were also looted.
Agitators also torched the
Pokhribing panchayat office
and set ablaze the sub-divisio-
nal office at Kurseong, partial-
ly destroying the building.
A day after Sonada toy tra-
in station was set on fire, pro-
testers attacked the Sonada
police station and torched a
part of it. TNN
Joyitas journey: From begging
to National Lok Adalat bench
Ambika.Pandit
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: On Saturday,
when Joyita Mondal drove
into Uttar Dinajpurs Islam-
pur court premises in a whi-
te car bearing a red plaque
stating judgeship on duty,
it was an occasion for a com-
munity that has long found
itself on the margins to cele-
brate.
As a transgender forced
to beg for a living to a social
worker chosen to be on the
bench for a National Lok
Adalat, it is a new beginning
for Joyita which signalled a
triumph over circumstan-
ces.
This is the first time
that a person from the com-
munity has got this opportu-
nity. It is not just about em-
powerment. This is about
Days After Chief
Justice Retired
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:A bench headed by
Jharkhand chief justice P K
Mohanty ordered on June 7 au-
diting of accounts of three in-
stitutions Jharkhand State
Legal Services Authority
(JHALSA), state judicial aca-
demy and the National Univer-
sity of Study and Researching
Law (NUSRL), Ranchi. Not-
hing unusual but for the fact
that the chief justice is the pat-
Society and flooded her Fa-
Joyita once had to sleep at a bus
stand after hotels refused entry
getting into the system and
getting the authority to ma-
ke a difference, said Abhee-
na Aher, founder of Trans
Welfare Equity and Empo-
werment Trust.
Life came full circle for
Joyita as the court was bare-
ly 5 minutes from the bus
stand where she had slept in
2010 after hotels turned her
away because of her gender.
killed in UK house fire
dies and chancellor of NUSRL.
As the head of these institu-
tions and as chief justice of the
HC, Justice Mohanty must ha-
ve been aware of the effect the
order passed by him and Justi-
ce Amitav K Gupta would have
on the reputation of these insti-
tutions. However, days after
Justice Mohanty retired, the
Continued on P 7
matter was taken up on June 20
by a bench of Justices S Chand-
rashekhar and Gupta.
They ordered the auditing
to be stopped and closed the ca-
se, saying an order of this natu-
re was passed without notice to
institutions concerned and co-
She resolved then to stand
up for others like her.
Her friends from the
transgender community
and those who know her as a
social worker recall her
work as the founder secreta-
ry of Dinajpur Notun Aalo
cebook timeline with cong-
ratulatory messages. It is
evident that her presence on
the National Lok Adalat
bench along with an additio-
nal sessions judge and an ad-
vocate has given hope to ma-
ny.
When TOI spoke to Joyi-
ta, she said she was elated
and saw her appointment as
a milestone that would send
out a strong message aga-
inst gender bias against
transgender persons.
Continued on P 7
their reputation.
As chief justice, Justice
Mohanty had received a letter
from an individual, Animesh
Kumar, on May 5 alleging mis- Family Has Roots through the main door. But he
was dragged back by neighbo-
management and misutilisa-
tion of funds by JHALSA, the
In Bharuch urs as the fire was too intense.
Zubairs father Yakub Da-
judicial academy and NUSRL. TIMES NEWS NETWORK lal had migrated to Bolton aro-
Taking suo motu cognisan- und 42 years ago from Kantha-
ce of the letter and converting Surat/Bharuch: In a tragic ria village, 7 km from Bharuch.
it into a writ petition, the bench incident, a woman having ro- Anisas father Adam Sulai-
on June 7 ordered, Having re- ots in Bharuch district and her man, a native of adjoining
gard to the nature of allega- three young children were The house after the blaze Sherpura village, too had sett-
tions and for ensuring transpa- charred to death when fire bro- led there several years ago. Zu-
rency in administration and in ke out in their house in Bolton daughter Khadija died in the bairs family was engaged in
the interest of justice, it is dee- town of Greater Manchester in accident. Her husband, Zubair selling chicken for many ye-
med proper that the accounts of North England on Saturday. Umerji, leapt from the first flo- ars, said his uncle Salim Da-
the aforesaid institutions be The woman, Anisa Umerji, or bedroom window as the fire lal, who lives in Kantharia.
audited by the principal acco- 40, her two sons Hammad, 12, spread and tried to rescue his
untant general, Jharkhand. and Yusuf, 10, and five-year-old family by trying to get inside Continued on P 5
Iraqi PM lands
in liberated
Mosul, claims
win against IS
Mosul: Iraqi Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi celebrated
with Iraqi troops on Sunday
in Mosul after they drove Is-
lamic State terrorists from
some of their last strong-
holds in a nearly nine-month
campaign, although heavy
fighting by holdouts continu-
ed in parts of the Old City ne-
ighbourhood.
Dressed in a black milita-
ry uniform, al-Abadi walked
amid the soldiers, at one po-
int grabbing an Iraqi flag and
briefly draping it on his sho-
ulders. Other troops waved
flags and pointed their wea-
pons in the air nearby. Al-Ira-
qia TV quoted him as saying
he congratulates the heroic
fighters and the people on the
big victory in Iraqs second-
largest city. AP P 9

MRP compulsory for items 300 retailers quit as sale of

sold online from next year
New Delhi: To protect online consu-
mers, the government has made it man-
datory for e-commerce companies from
January 2018 to print not only the MRP
on goods but also information like expi-
ry date and customer care details.
An amendment in this regard has
been made to the Legal Metrology
(Packaged commodities) Rules, 2011 by
the consumer affairs ministry last
month. A six-month deadline has been
given to the companies to comply with
the new rule.
Consumers deserve the same pro-
tection online as offline. At present, only
MRP (maximum retail price) is printed
on the goods sold online. We have asked
the companies to declare additional de-
tails on the label, a senior official in the
The firms have to declare
manufacturing date, expiry
date, net quantity, country
of origin and consumer
care details on the label
consumer affairs ministry said.
Enough time has been given to the
companies for complying with the new
norms. From January 2018, it is must
that goods sold via e-commerce plat-
form should have all these declarations
else the companies will face stringent
action, the official said.
Along with MRP, the companies ha-
ve to declare manufacturing date, expi-
ry date, net quantity, country of origin
and consumer care details on the label,
he said. PTI
fertiliser linked to Aadhaar
Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Nearly 300 fertiliser retai-
lers across six districts in Madhya Pra-
desh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Te-
langana and Andhra Pradesh have not
renewed their licences after the linking
of Aadhaar for availing subsidy benefits
removed fake beneficiaries from several
welfare schemes, a survey showed.
The survey by consulting firm Mi- Aadhaar-enabled Fertiliser Distribution
croSave, conducted for government System has ushered in transparency and
think tank Niti Aayog, has found that has made manufacturers, wholesalers
the introduction of Mobile Fertiliser and retailers accountable
Management System (MFMS) applica-
tion and the Aadhaar-enabled Fertiliser These measures have also helped re-
Distribution System (AeFDS) has ushe- duce diversion of fertiliser for non-agri-
red in transparency and has made ma- culture purposes.
nufacturers, wholesalers and retailers
accountable. Continued on P 7