| 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. Rahul, Priyanka meet Hathras gang rape victim's family Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today met the family of the Dalit woman who died after alleged gang rape this week, after the Uttar Pradesh government allowed them to visit Hathras. This came after police officials tried to convince them that Section 144 was in place and that their visit would be a violation of the Epidemic Diseases Act. Love Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police (Law & Order), Gautam Buddh Nagar, told reporters that a large number of workers turned up on Delhi-Noida-Delhi (DND) flyway, leading to a traffic jam. "When the Congress leaders persisted with their demand, they were allowed to go to Hathras in a group of five persons," he said. Senior Congress leaders K.C. Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and P.L. Punia have accompanied Gandhi and Vadra. Congress workers who had come to join their leaders at the DND flyover were lathi-charged by the U.P. police. Former MP Kamal Kishore and Delhi Congress president Anil Choudhary faced blows. Vadra came out of the car and held the lathi of a policeman. She could be heard asking him not to hit the party workers. She also explained the situation to party workers and asked them to return, before moving on. Earlier in the day, the Gautam Buddh Nagar police made arrangements to stop Gandhi and Vadra in Noida. A heavy deployment of police personnel was made to prevent the Congress leaders from crossing the Delhi-U.P. border. Gandhi had tweeted that he would make another attempt to travel to Hathras and speak to the family of the 19-year-old girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered. In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said that no force on earth could stop him from going to Hathras, meet the unhappy family, and share their pain. State Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu tweeted that he had been put under house arrest by Uttar Pradesh police to prevent him from going to Hathras. AIIMS medical board rules out murder in Sushant Singh Rajput case While the CBI maintained on Saturday that "it is looking into all the aspects of the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and that investigation is still under way," the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) medical board that was set up to look into the case has "ruled out murder". The AIIMS medical board has termed it "a case of hanging and death by suicide". AIIMS forensic chief Sudhir Gupta said on Saturday, "We have submitted our conclusive report to the CBI and there are no injuries indicating struggle or scuffle. The body has marks of hanging. The presence of any sedative material was not detected by AIIMS toxicology lab. The complete examination of the ligature mark over the neck was consistent with hanging."  Sushant Singh Rajput He added that a team of forensic doctors looked into the case and they have dismissed the claims of "poisoning and strangling". Meanwhile, Kshitij Prasad, former executive producer of the Karan Johar-owned Dharma Productions, who had been arrested in the drugs probe being conducted in connection with the case, told a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) court today that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) harassed and coerced him to falsely implicate actors Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Dino Morea. Prasad had earlier said that he was being forced to falsely implicate Karan Johar. NCB has denied Prasad's allegations. The court has sent him to judicial custody till October 6. He had been remanded in the NCB's custody till October 3. Will waive compound interest for loans up to ₹2 crore, govt informs Supreme Court The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that it will continue to "hand-hold" small and vulnerable borrowers and waive the compound interest (interest on interest) accumulated against their loans during the six-month moratorium period announced during the lockdown. The waiver of compound interest is only applicable for loans up to ₹2 crore, an additional affidavit filed by the Ministry of Finance told the Supreme Court. The relief of waiver of compound interest during the six-month moratorium will be for MSME, education, housing, consumer durables, credit card, auto, personal and consumption loans, all up to ₹2 crore. Bhim Army Chief demands 'gun licence for Bahujans' and 50% subsidy to buy pistols Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, who has been one of the leaders at the forefront of the campaign to demand justice for the Hathras gang rape victim, today demanded a 'tatkal' (fast-track) process for giving gun-owning licences to Bahujans. He also said that the government should give 50% subsidy on the cost of pistols. "The Constitution provides the right to life to every citizen, and this right also includes the right to protect oneself. Our demand is that gun licenses to the nation's 20 lakh Bahujans should be provided on a tatkal basis. The government should give us 50% subsidy to enable us to buy rifles and pistols. We will protect ourselves. #Gun licence for Bahujan," he tweeted in Hindi. Azad's demand comes in the wake of a rising number of crimes against Dalits. The National Crime Records Bureau data, which was released earlier this week, revealed an overall increase in crimes against the Scheduled Caste population, with Uttar Pradesh recording the highest number. Trump hospitalised after Covid-19 diagnosis U.S. President Donald Trump was in a military hospital on Saturday for treatment after testing positive for Covid-19. Roughly 17 hours after he made his diagnosis public, Trump walked slowly from the White House to a waiting helicopter to be taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland. He wore a mask and business suit and did not speak to reporters.  U.S. President Donald Trump walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington D.C. on October 2, 2020, as he heads to Walter Reed Military Medical Centre. Trump, 74, will work in a special suite at the hospital for the next few days as a precautionary measure. White House doctor Sean P. Conley said late on Friday that Trump was doing very well, did not need supplemental oxygen, and had received a first dose of Remdesivir, an intravenous antiviral drug sold by Gilead Sciences Inc that has been shown to shorten hospital stays. Covid Watch: Numbers and Developments The number of reported coronavirus cases from India stood at 65,41,615 at the time of publishing this newsletter, with the death toll at 1,01,780. In Brief: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the Atal Tunnel at Rohtang in Himachal Pradesh. The world's longest highway tunnel, situated at an altitude of 3,000 metres, connects Solang Valley near Manali to Sissu in Lahaul and Spiti district. Describing the tunnel as an example of world-class border connectivity, Modi said that it would improve India's border infrastructure. Evening Wrap will return tomorrow. | 
Post a Comment