Written By: Kritika Vaid | Updated: May 6, 2019, 4:52 PM
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In Jammu and Kashmir, polling takes place in Ladakh constituency and Pulwama and Shopian districts of Anantnag seat. Kashmiri Pandits cast their votes at a Special Polling Station in Udhampur, for Anantnag parliamentary constituency. Overall poll percentage till 3 pm in Jammu and Kashmir is 15.64 %.
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A dismal voter turnout of 1.5 per cent was recorded till 12 noon in the third and final phase of polling in the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency on Monday while nearly 30 per cent had voted in the Ladakh seat by noon. Hardly any voters approached the polling stations in Shopian, Wachi, Rajpora, Pulwama and Tral segments of Anantnag. Militants added to the tension by hurling a grenade at the Rohmoo polling station which exploded but without causing any damage. But it sparked fear among those who may have ventured out to vote. A mysterious explosion also occurred outside a polling station in Tral. Police said they were investigating.
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While only two phases of Lok Sabha 2019 elections are left, campaigning doesn’t seem to have slowed down. In fact, political parties are giving their all to the final leg. Holding a rally here on Monday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi likened PM Modi with a boxer who had entered the ring with people’s mandate but instead of defeating corruption, unemployment and farmers’ woes, had beaten his own people.
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In another development in Muzaffarpur shelter home case, the Supreme Court on Monday the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete the ongoing investigation into the alleged murder of 11 girls and file a status report, in two weeks time. Further, the top court bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta said the matter would be heard by a vacation bench on June 3 keeping in view the urgency of the case. Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the CBI, told the court that 11 girls are alleged to have been murdered in the Muzaffarpur shelter home and in one of the matters the agency has also recovered bones from a burial ground. Venugopal, however, told the court it will not be possible for the CBI to complete the probe into the alleged murder of 11 girls by June 3.
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The Election Commission on Sunday rejected a plea to reschedule the commencement of polls during the last three phases of the Lok Sabha elections to 5 am instead of 7 am due to Ramzan. Ramzan, the month of fasting in Islam, will begin from May 7 (Tuesday). The Supreme Court had on Thursday directed the Election Commission to take a call on a plea seeking to advance the voting timing to 5 am for the remaining phases of the Lok Sabha election due to heat waves and Ramzan. The petition was filed by advocates Mohammed Nizamuddin Pasha and Asad Hayat, who mentioned it for urgent hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. The bench had asked the counsel appearing for the poll body to take a decision on the issue.
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The Rouse Avenue Court of Delhi on Monday extended the date of interim protection from arrest granted to former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram till May 30 in connection with the Aircel-Maxis case. The request was made after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the agencies, sought more time to complete the probe. The case relates to alleged irregularities in the grant of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval in the Aircel-Maxis deal. Earlier, Special Judge OP Saini extended the interim relief to Chidambaram and posted the matter for May 6 after the ED sought more time to gather evidence. Notably, the prosecution agencies have sought more time to complete the investigation. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on July 19, 2018, filed a fresh charge-sheet in the Aircel-Maxis case in a Delhi Court against 18 accused, including Chidambaram, his son Karti, and select government officials (serving and retired).
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A 17-year-old teenager had reportedly committed suicide after failing her CBSE Class 12 Board Exam for the third time in a row. After checking her results, the girl went home and had a meal with her family members. Later, she went to her room and hung herself from a ceiling fan in her room in North East Delhi, stated a report. A report quoted the girl’s father as saying, “We don’t know for sure what had actually happened with regard to the exams. We only know that when she came out of the CBSE office, she told my wife that her paper was canceled. It is possible that she had failed again and was afraid to tell us the truth. We don’t really know.”
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After the Prime Minister accused a major opposition party of preventing beneficiaries under the Ayushman Bharat scheme from availing its benefits at a government hospital in Amethi, the medical director of Amethi’s Sanjay Gandhi Hospital refuted Narendra Modi’s claims. The director said that they have treated as many as 200 patients under the Ayushman Bharat scheme so far, a leading news channel reported. “It’s a baseless allegation. We have treated 200 patients under the scheme so far,” News18 quoted SM Choudhary, Director of the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Amethi as saying. This comes in the wake of PM Modi’s allegation that a poor man died after the hospital turned him away as he had been carrying an Ayushman Bharat card accorded to him by the Prime Minister. In response, the hospital acknowledged that the man died at the facility, but denied any connection of the incident with “politics, religion or caste”.
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