28032024-TTB-01.qxd 3/27/2024 11:49 PM Page 1 13 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 144 NO. 86 | 12 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881  HARYANA BRIDGE COLLAPSE: BIDEN HAILS INDIAN CREW FOR SOUNDING ALERT WORLD /thetribunechd ANURAG SAYS TERROR INCIDENTS DOWN, CAN REVOKE AFSPA J&K SAME-DAY SETTLEMENT EC ISSUES NOTICE TO FOR SELECT 25 STOCKS SHRINATE OVER FROM TODAY BUSINESS REMARKS NATION thursday | 28 march 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com J&K ex-Governor NN Vohra hails Shah’sremarkon troop pullback New Delhi, March 27 Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir NN Vohra on Wednesday hailed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on the Centre’s “plans to pull back troops and leave law and order to the J&K Police”. Vohra, who was J&K Governor from 2008 to 2018 before the state was bifurcated into union territories, welcomed Shah’s intention to revoke the application of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in J&K and SAYS POLICE MUST BE MADE TO DISCHARGE PRIMARY DUTY hoped that the Union Government would follow a similar approach and withdraw the military from other areas in the country where it may have been deployed for long periods to carry out internal security duties. “The state police must be made to discharge their primary duty of maintaining public order and free the military to return to its essential duties,” Vohra said. A national security protagonist, Vohra had, besides serving in the Himalayan border areas after the 1962 IndiaChina conflict, functioned as continued on page 8 No relief for Kejri as HC defers ‘Unwarranted’: MEA petition against arrest to Apr 3 summons US envoy REMARKS ON KEJRIWAL’S ARREST Sandeep Dikshit Notice issued to ED on Delhi CM’s plea | Six-day remand ends today Satya Prakash Tribune News Service New Delhi, March 27 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to order immediate release of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in a money laundering case linked to the Delhi excise policy scam, saying it can’t decide the matter without giving an opportunity to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its response. Rejecting Kejriwal’s plea for immediate release from the ED’s custody, Justice EXPECT BIG EXPOSE, SAYS SUNITA KEJRIWAL NEED TO HEAR ED TOO Having regard to the nature of issues raised, this court is of the opinion that respondent (ED) has to be given an opportunity to file a reply. Delhi High Court ❝ Stressing that no money was found in multiple ED raids, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita has said her husband would do a “big expose” on the alleged excise policy scam in Delhi court on Thursday. GOA AAP CHIEF AMIT PALEKAR SUMMONED BY ED TODAY AAP legislators wearing masks >> protest in Delhi Assembly. Swarna Kanta Sharma said deciding his application for interim release without calling for the ED’s reply would amount to disposing of and granting relief sought in the main petition itself. “This court remains con- scious of the fact that to reach a conclusion as to whether the petitioner herein is entitled to continued on page 8 Tribune News Service New Delhi, March 27 India on Wednesday summoned the US Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Gloria Berbena and took strong objection to a US State Department spokesperson’s remarks in Washington on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The summoning of the envoy of India’s strategic partner and her interaction with Foreign Office officials lasted 45 minutes as against five minutes for a senior diplomat from the German Embassy on March 23 over US’ Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Gloria Berbena in South Block. ANI Tribune News Service Jalandhar, March 27 The Jalandhar office of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday conducted raids at 26 locations, including the premises of Punjab Excise Commissioner Varun Roojam and Ferozepur DC continued on page 8 ED officials gather documents in Sector 20, Chandigarh. RAVI KUMAR AAP MP Sushil Rinku & MLA Sheetal Angural join BJP. MUKESH AGGARWAL from the AAP’s primary membership. Angural will resign as MLA on Thursday. c m y b Joining a day after the BJP announced its decision to continued on page 8 workforce comprises the youth ■ Percentage of jobless youth pos- sessing secondary or higher education surged from 35.2 in 2000 to 65.7 in 2022, reveals India Employment Report-2024 ■ 63 lakh young people lost jobs during the Covid pandemic-related lockdown INSIDE Former IPS officer Bhatt convicted in drugs case PALANPUR: A sessions court in the same issue — seeking a “fair, transparent and timely legal process” for jailed continued on page 8 Aditi Tandon New Delhi, March 27 The exodus of Punjab politicians towards the BJP continued on Wednesday with Aam Aadmi Party’s lone Lok Sabha member from the state Sushil Kumar Rinku joining the saffron ranks along with AAP’s Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural. Rinku and Angural switched over after resigning ■ Over 80% of India’s unemployed IN BRIEF ED raids 26 locations in Setback for AAP as Punjab MP, MLA switch to BJP PUNJAB LEADERS WHO Punjab over guava scam JOINED BJP SINCE 2022 Tribune News Service 65.7% EDUCATED YOUTH UNEMPLOYED: REPORT FROM CONG: Ex-CM Amarinder Singh; Punjab Congress ex-chief Sunil Jakhar; former ministers Manpreet Badal, Rana Gurmeet Sodhi, Sunder Sham Arora; MPs Preneet Kaur and Ravneet Bittu. Raj Kumar Verka, Gurpreet Kanger, Balbir Singh and Jeet Mohinder Sidhu also joined the BJP, but they later rejoined the Congress. FROM AAP:MP Sushil Kumar Rinku and MLA Sheetal Angural Palanpur in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Wednesday convicted jailed former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a drug seizure case dating back to 1996. PTI IndiGo aircraft grazes wings of Air India plane NEW DELHI: An IndiGo aircraft grazed the wings of an Air India Express plane at the Kolkata airport on Wednesday, leaving wings of both aircraft damaged, officials said. TNS Centre to soon roll out satellite toll collection NEW DELHI: Toll booths on high- ways could become a thing of the past with the government working to introduce satellitebased toll collection on the highways for vehicles. INSIDE