| Welcome to the Evening Wrap newsletter, your guide to the day's biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu. We hope you are staying safe. Centre estimates using 40-50 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine by July 2021 The Centre estimates to receive and utilise 40-50 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine covering 20-25 crore people by July next year and it is preparing a format for the states to submit by October-end their list of priority population group to receive the vaccine, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today. He said priority would be given to health workers engaged in Covid-19 management in getting the vaccine. During an interaction with his social media followers on 'Sunday Samvad' platform, he said a high-level expert group is going into all the aspects of vaccines and the health ministry is preparing a format in which states will submit lists of priority population groups. The list of frontline health workers will include both government as well as private-sector doctors, nurses, paramedics, sanitary staff, ASHA workers, surveillance officers and many other occupational categories who are involved in tracing, testing and treatment of patients. This exercise is targeted to be completed by the end of this October and the states are being closely guided to also submit details about cold chain facilities and other related infrastructure which will be required down to the block level, the minister said. "The Centre is also working on plans for building capacities in human resources, training, supervision and others on a massive scale and roughly estimates to receive and utilise 400-500 million doses covering approximately 20-25 crore people by July 2021. All this is under various stages of finalisation," Dr. Vardhan said. LJP decides to go it alone in Bihar The Lok Janshakti Party at a meeting of its Parliamentary Board has decided to contest on its own in the upcoming Bihar Assembly poll. The decision, however, does not mar its political ties with the BJP with the party saying it will not contest against any BJP candidate and will support the latter in a post-poll scenario. In an official statement released after the Parliamentary Board meeting chaired by party President Chirag Paswan, the party said that at a national level the party has strong ties with the BJP but at the State level, because of ideological differences with the JD(U), it has decided to go it alone.  Lok Janshakti Party supporters celebrate in Patna on October 4, 2020 the party's decision to go it alone in the Bihar Assembly elections. The Hindu had reported on October 2 that the LJP would contest outside the alliance to mop up pro-BJP and anti-Nitish Kumar votes. It planned to take on the JD(U) with the slogan BJP se bair nahi, Nitish teri Khair nahi (No enmity with Modi but won't spare [Bihar Chief Minister and JD (U) President] Nitish Kumar). The LJP in its official statement also said it will work towards a BJP-LJP government in Bihar. "LJP believes that on the lines of the BJP government in the Centre, the Bihar government should also be led by BJP," the statement said. In the seat sharing formula under discussion among the NDA allies, the LJP was being offered only 25 odd seats. An official announcement of seats and candidates is expected once the BJP sorts out its seat arrangement between the JD(U) and Jiten Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha. The LJP's decision is a culmination of many months of a belligerent campaign against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by party president Chirag Paswan. Mr. Paswan had accused the Bihar CM of taking forward the saat nischey or "seven promises" agenda that was originally part of the RJD-JD(U) government in 2015. Stormy GST council meeting expected tomorrow Looking ahead to the coming week, the GST Council meeting on Monday may turn into a stormy affair, with non-BJP ruled states still being in disagreement with the Centre on the compensation issue. While as many as 21 states, mostly ruled by BJP or parties which have supported it on issues, had till mid-September opted to borrow ₹ 97,000 crore to meet the GST revenue shortfall in the current fiscal, opposition-led states like West Bengal, Punjab and Kerala have not yet accepted the borrowing option given by the Centre. Sources told the Press Trust of India that opposition-ruled states would object to the Centre's borrowing options and demand alternative mechanisms for funding GST compensation deficit. They feel that the constitutional liability of compensating states lies with the union government. In the current fiscal, the states are staring at a staggering ₹ 2.35 lakh crore Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue shortfall. The Centre in August gave two options to the states to borrow either ₹ 97,000 crore from a special window facilitated by the RBI or ₹ 2.35 lakh crore from market and has also proposed extending the compensation cess levied on luxury, demerit and sin goods beyond 2022 to repay the borrowing. However, the Chief Ministers of six non-BJP ruled states — West Bengal, Kerala, Delhi, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu — have written to the Centre opposing the options which require states to borrow to meet the shortfall. 7th round of India-China Corps Commander talks scheduled for October 12 India and China are scheduled to hold the 7th round of Corps Commander talks to work out measures for disengagement and de-escalation along the disputed border in Eastern Ladakh. The talks are scheduled on October 12. Lt. Gen. Harinder Singh, 14 Corps Commander is set to be replaced by Lt. Gen. P.G.K. Menon in mid-October. The talks are likely to be attended by both the Lieutenant Generals from the Indian side, a defence source said. The Indian side will also have a representative from the Ministry of External Affairs.  Army vehicles move towards the Line of Actual Control in Leh on September 27, 2020. After the 6th round of talks on September 21, both sides for the first time issued a joint statement in which they agreed to "stop sending more troops to the frontline" and "refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground." Evidence of intent enough for conviction: Supreme Court In a potentially far reaching judgement, the Supreme Court has held that the presence of the mental element or the intention to commit a crime, if cogently established, is sufficient for conviction. It is not necessary to be actively involved in the physical act of assault, the Supreme Court has held in a judgment. A Bench led by Justice Rohinton F. Nariman said the common intention (Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code) consists of several persons acting in unison to achieve a common purpose, though their roles may be different. The role may be active or passive is irrelevant, once common intention is established. The judgment, authored by Justice Sinha, came on an appeal filed by three persons accused of a double murder in Assam in 2005. They argued that the trial court had acquitted two of their co-accused on the benefit of doubt. They sought parity, saying if the duo were acquitted on the same evidence, they too should be released on the same benefit of doubt. They argued there was no common intention to commit the crime. They were not armed. So, each of the five accused person should be judged on his own individual acts during the commission of the crime. The court refused to accept the argument. In his judgment, Justice Sinha observed that the foundation for conviction for common intention is vicarious responsibility. That is, the accused is equally responsible for the acts of his co-accused if there had been prior meeting of their minds to commit the crime. "The presence of the mental element or the intention to commit the act, if cogently established, is sufficient for conviction, without actual participation in the assault. It is, therefore, not necessary that before a person is convicted on the ground of common intention, he must be actively involved in the physical activity of assault," Justice Sinha reasoned. Covid watch - Numbers and Developments  Shoppers throng Ranganathan Street in Chennai's in T. Nagar on October 4, 2020. The number of reported coronavirus cases from India stands at 66,05,130 at the time of publishing this newsletter with the death toll at 1,02,353. In Brief: Suspected extremists on Sunday ambushed and killed an Assam Rifles jawan in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. Another jawan was injured seriously in the ambush around 9 a.m. near Hetlong village under the Jairampur police station. No group has taken responsibility, but district officials and the security forces suspect 30-35 members of the United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent headed by Paresh Baruah and the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) carried out the attack. "A water tanker of the 19 Assam Rifles that was travelling to Hetlong village to fetch water came under attack," Changlang District Magistrate Devansh Yadav said. "We received reports that there was an explosion, but this cannot be confirmed until we receive the autopsy report. In all likelihood, the death was caused by bullet," he added. Attorney General K.K. Venugopal has declined a plea to give consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings in the Supreme Court against Member of Parliament and senior Congress party leader, Digvijaya Singh, for his tweets. The plea by advocate Sumant Sudan referred to two tweets by Mr. Singh questioned whether the Supreme Court would declare the alleged sweeping powers of raid and arrest without warrant given by the Uttar Pradesh government to the Special Security Force as unconstitutional or favour it under pressure. Mr. Venugopal said he was replying on the assumption that Mr. Singh actually did make the statements. Having said that in his letter, the top law officer opined the statements were "wholly uncalled for". Evening Wrap will return tomorrow | 
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