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incide~ts of.illcg~d terrorism while preserving its liberal sec-.

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ABVP activists tried to bum an efflgy of the Jamla vice-chancellor on Thursday but were stopped by the pollee. .

Photo by Praveen Khanna .

Teachers to give financial, legal help to suspects from locality .

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EXPRESS~SSERVTCE .

NEW DEI.HLSEPTEMBER 25 .

TEACHERS ofJamia MiUia Islamia have decided to come together and provide finan-cial and legal support to peo-ple detained on charges of terrorism. Teachers have set up the Jamia Teachers' Soli-darity Group and intend to step out of L~e boundary waUs of the un;versity and help those staying in areas ncar the institute. .

"We understand that as a university, the institute can only help out those who arc related to it. For that reason, we have set up an indepen-dent group that wiU help out, financiaUy and lcgaUy, people who are in need," Dr Anu-radha Ghosh, a group mem-ber, told mediapersonc; on Thursday. .

The memberssaid the move has been motivated by the spate of arrests by the police, where poor, young Muslims have been detained "arbitrar-ily" on the bas~of mere suspi-cion, without following the course of law. The group also aUcges that the police have come up with inconsistent ex-planations for the detentions. .

Unhappy over the way the police has handled the Delhi bomb blasts case, the group has called the police opera-tion in the aftermath of the blasts "i\ communal witch hunt" and has demanded an .

independent impartial in- .

qUiry. "We condemn this .

brazen witch hunt in the .

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name of fighting terror and pledge solidarity with the boys of Jamia Nagar, espe-cially the families of those who have been picked up and arrested without evidence," Manisha Sethi, another member, said. .

Elaborating on how they would help residents living in areas near the university, Ghosh said they will start out by conducting an extensive campaign, including pro-grammes like "Jan Sunwai". ·'We will also collect money and ask other teachers' or-ganisations to join in,n added Ghosh. .

Confusion over guidelines .

Several affidavits and revision of the Ashok Ganguly Committee re-port, which attempted to regulate pre-primary admissions in the re-gion, are pending in courts. As a result, nobody knows how tbe schools will go about conducting the admissions. While guidelines from the Directorate ofEducation do exist, schools have been granted autonomy with regard to imple-mentation of the points system. .

"There have been so many changes in the guidelines, with ap-peals and court directives, that I am not quite sure what the proce-dure will be. We will only be able to start the admission process by mid November at the earliest," Ashutosh Satta, principal of Bloom Public School, said. .

A Delhi High Court order not only banned interviews or interac-tions with the children but has also asked the schools to refrain from ob-servingchildren in any formal or in-formal setting. But schoolscan hold formal interactions wilh parents to assess thechild's background While Lhere wilJ be points awarded for neighbourhood, parents' ed teation and a sibling aJumni, it is how weU the interaction with parents goes that will decide the outcome. .

A Delhi government list ofguide-.

lines for pre-primary admissions .

mandates that recognised schools .

use a standardised registration form .

and include parameters like prefer-.

ence to neighbourhood children, sib-.

lings of alumni and the socially and .

economically backward classes. .

Dengue: 12 new ca~ .

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EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 25 .

WITH 12 more patients test· ing positive for dengue, the number of cases reported Ill the Capital has climbed to~70. 1Wo persons have died from Lhe disease so far. .

The spurt in dengue cases has prompted the MC'D to di-rect officials to prepare a fresh blueprint to combat the rapid spread of the diseast(. "Delhi bas reponed 470 dengue cases and two deaths this season," Municipal Commissioner KS Mchra told a meeting of the MCD Stancling Committee. .

1l1c meeting witnessed a ruckus over the iss1. dengue, with the Oppl Congress accusmg the I failing to prevent thespn the disease. The rulin! Opposition benches u chargesand shoutedslog .

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''Municipal Health 0 N K Yadav should tal sponsibility and resign. Shanna, LeaderofOpp? in MCD, said. The Coc demanded the den~ break in the citybe dedi epidemic and alleged d MCD was distnbuting cines and insecticides' past their expiry date commissioner, howev nied these allegations .

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