29052024-TTC-01.qxd 5/29/2024 1:10 AM 13 BADALS EYEING LEAD FROM LAMBI INDIA VOTES /thetribunechd Page 1 CHANDIGARH | GURUGRAM | JALANDHAR | BATHINDA | VOL. 144 NO. 148 | 14 PAGES | ~5.00 | REGD. NO. CHD/0006/2024-2026 ESTABLISHED IN 1881 wednesday | 29 may 2024 /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com PILES TREATMENT German/American Italian Techniques RANA HOSPITAL SAME DAY DISCHARGE 98141-28667 BDO Office Road, Sirhind (PUNJAB) Shahjahan brain behind ED attack: CBI chargesheet Shubhadeep Choudhury & Animesh Singh Tribune News Service New Delhi, May 28 Giving fresh ammunition to anti-Trinamool parties to target it on the Sandeshkhali issue ahead of the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, party’s West Bengal strongman Shahjahan Sheikh has RIVALS GET FRESH AMMO TO ATTACK TMC ON LS POLL EVE been named by the CBI as the main conspirator in a case related to an alleged attack on an Enforcement Directorate team in January. Tasked with the probe by the Calcutta High Court, the CBI filed a chargesheet in the case in a Basirhat court on May 27. Shahjahan and his brother Sekh Alomgir are among the seven accused named in the chargesheet. The ED team was attacked continued on page 9 TMC tricked OBCs for ‘vote jihad’: PM Asks if WB Govt will target judges who ‘exposed’ it Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi, May 28 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal of snatching the rights of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and giving these away for “appeasement politics and vote jihad”, asking if the ruling party would now let loose its goons on judges “who had exposed its treachery”. The PM was speaking in Barasat and Baruipur in Bengal ahead of the final phase of voting on June 1 in nine parliamentary segments of the state. His reference was to the recent Calcutta High Court judgment declaring as illegal OBC certificates granted to nearly 77 communities, of which, the majority, he said, were Muslims. He claimed the BJP would be the top gainer in Bengal elections this time and the TMC “was fighting for existence”. In 2019, the BJP had won 18 of the state’s 42 parliamentary segments. The TMC got 22 seats and the Congress two. At Barasat, Modi, in a PM Narendra Modi during a roadshow in Kolkata on Tuesday. REUTERS KEDARNATH TO KANYAKUMARI FOR MEDITATION PM Modi will end his LS poll campaign with a 48-hour meditation break in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari, in keeping with the past practice of undertaking spiritual journeys at the end of national poll cycles. In 2019, he medidated at Kedarnath. veiled attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, castigated her for questioning the HC order and said, “The court has exposed the treachery of the Trinamool with OBCs. The party snatched the rights of OBC youths to support its appeasement politics and vote jihad.” The PM also questioned Mamata’s “we will not accept the court order” remarks and said, “It is quite clear that the TMC doesn’t like those who expose its treachery and deceit. I am stunned at how the party is questioning the judiciary. Don’t they have any faith in the judiciary and the Constitution? The way continued on page 9 Sketchy probe: HC ‘Our fault’: Nawaz on acquits Ram Rahim Kargil misadventure in aide’s murder case Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, May 28 More than two years after the CBI Special Judge convicted and sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to life imprisonment in Ranjit Singh murder case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today acquitted him and four others after observing that the investigation officers carried out a “tainted and sketchy probe” following the media glare surrounding the event. The Bench of Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Lalit Batra also asserted that the investigation officers collected evidence unworthy of credence. It observed that the case starkly portrayed the necessity of the courts to make an incisive and objective analysis of the evidence existing on record, rather than allowing it to become stultified through a proactive media trial of the purported incrim- THE 2002 CASE ■ A case for murder was registered on July 10, 2002, after dera manager Ranjit Singh was shot in Kurukshetra ■ Ranjit’s father had alleged that dera followers killed his son for flagging sexual exploitation of sadhvis by Ram Rahim MULTIPLE LAPSES ■ In its 163-page verdict, HC cited multiple lapses in the CBI probe ■ The car allegedly used in the crime could never be seized ■ Prosecution witnesses stated four assailants were armed, but none of the weapons was seized inatory role of the accused vis-a-vis the crime event. The Bench also made it clear media trials were not at all required to be the “guiding regimen” for objective evaluations of evidence on record and the “strictest principles of evidentiary logic” continued on page 9 Lahore, May 28 Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had violated an agreement with India signed by him and former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf. “On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee saheb came here and made an agreement with us. But we violated that agreement... it was our fault,” Sharif told a meeting of the PML-N general council that elected him president of the ruling party six years after he was disqualified by the Supreme Court. continued on page 9 25 die in Mizoram landslips Rescuers look for survivors next to a quarry that collapsed after rain in Aizawl. Twentyfive persons died in landslips. BACK PAGE No justice, Moosewala’s dad lists 9 posers to netas Jupinderjit Singh & Sukhmeet Singh Seeks commitment on raising these in Parl Tribune News Service Mansa/Chandigarh, May 28 When a Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha elections sought support from the family of slain Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, he was handed over a two-page letter containing nine unanswered questions about the murder. In the letter, Balkaur Singh, father of Moosewala, also sought a commitment from the Congress leader to raise these in Parliament. This is the ritual Balkaur has been following since the campaign for June 1 election in Punjab started. As the family prepares to observe the second death anniversary of Moosewala (May 29), Balkaur Singh, father of Sidhu Moosewala, in Mansa. PAWAN SHARMA his father has one demand from his fans in Punjab – “through your votes on June 1, defeat those responsible for the death of my son”. “My whole focus in this election has been to raise the issue of Sidhu Moosewala’s murder. No political party has made the murder a poll issue. I want to make the candidates commit on what they 21 KILLED IN FRESH ISRAELI ATTACK ON RAFAH WORLD will do about my son’s murder if they win the election,” Balkaur told The Tribune. He said he had requested the fans through social media to observe a quiet death anniversary. As Balkaur tours the state, his wife Charan Kaur takes care of their second son, who was born in March this year. “She mostly listens to ‘Dear Mama’ song of Moosewala, who likened his face and nature to his mother,” said a source close to the family. Meanwhile, as many as 34 persons have been chargesheeted and 29 accused have been arrested in the case so far. The investigation into the case still ends at gangster Lawrence Bishnoi continued on page 9 c m y b