IM co-founder

Qureshi was allegedly also instrumental in planting 29 improvised explosive devices (IEDS) in 2008 in Surat that did not explode because of malfunctioning of the timer device. “The unexploded IEDS were recovered between July 27 and August 3 from different locations by Gujarat police. Qureshi is also a suspect in the July 2006 Mumbai train blasts,” said Kushwah.

Police said at least 14 rounds were exchanged before Qureshi’s capture but no one from either side was injured. A pistol and some identity documents were seized. Before the 2008 Gujarat attacks, he set up camps where radicalised young men were taught rock climbing and swimming, bomb making and use of arms. They were also given psychological training on how to mislead interrogators in case of their arrest, said Kushwah.

Police said he was referred to as the Osama Bin Laden of India by fellow terrorists. Upon his return, Qureshi had plans to scout youths in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka where he was once influential, said Kushwah. Asked if Qureshi had plans to launch an attack in Delhi after his return, Kushwah denied it.

Qureshi’s initial interrogation has revealed that he fled to Nepal via Bihar in 2008, soon after his name surfaced in connection with the Ahmedabad serial bombings, police said. During his stay in Nepal till early 2015, Qureshi worked as a school teacher and again came in touch with Riyaz Bhatkal, one of the founder members of IM. He managed to procure a voter ID card and passport of Nepal in the name of Abdul Rehman, the investigators added.

In February-march 2015, Kushwah said that Qureshi went to Saudi Arabia on Bhatkal’s instructions to arrange money needed for the revival of the IM. “After returning from Saudi Arabia in June 2017, Qureshi began visiting India clandestinely to indoctrinate unemployed youth and revive IM’S network,” said Kushwah. Qureshi was on Monday produced before a city court, which ordered he be kept in police custody for 14 days. named in the case, although, in late December 2014, a special CBI court judge discharged him.

On Monday, the Maharashtra government produced statements of four district judges, two of whom have since been appointed as judges in the Bombay HC, stating that Loya died of a heart attack and it was they who had taken him to hospital.

It also dismissed allegations of foul play.

Justice DY Chandrachud, one of the judges on the bench, sought to restore normalcy to the proceedings after heated exchanges between Dave and Salve and said: “This is a serious case. Let’s all look at the documents and hear the case objectively and dispassionately.” Responding to Dave’s objection to Salve appearing for the state, he added: “We are all keepers of our own conscience. We cannot tell a lawyer to appear or not to appear.”

Meanwhile, lawyers Indira Jaising, appearing for civil society activists wishing to intervene in the case, attracted the CJI’S ire by claiming the bench was trying to “gag the press”. “We have not said anything. How can you say we are gagging the press? You must apologise,” the CJI said after which Jaising apologised.

The Supreme Court adjourned the hearing in the case to February 2 and asked all parties to file documents relating to Judge Loya’s death in the apex court.

While hearing the case on January 16, Justice Mishra had asked for it to be listed before an “appropriate bench”, triggering speculation that he was not going to hear the case anymore. A day earlier on January 15, he had broken down at a customary morning tea meeting of judges of the apex court, claiming that the allegations aired by the four judges on January 12 had besmirched his reputation. farm growth for five years would still work out to 2.3%, the lowest in two nearly two decades.

In 2017-18, agricultural growth is expected to slow to 2.1%, compared to 4.9% in the previous year, according to official forecasts.

“The goal of doubling farmers’ income is stupendous, cannot be achieved in a business-as-usual scenario and will need something dramatic. So far there is nothing to show that it is possible. Even retaining earlier growth levels looks difficult,” Gulati said.

If the government is looking at doubling “nominal” income of farmers – which denotes income not adjusted for inflation – then it is possible and has happened before, according to economist Abhijit Sen. If the increase is to be “real” – or income that is adjusted for inflation – then it’s a tall order, he added. Income growth is always benchmarked against a corresponding rise in prices because inflation shrinks purchasing power.

On April 13, 2016, the Modi government had set up a committee under Ashok Dalwai, former additional secretary in the agriculture ministry, to prepare a series of reports on doubling farm income. The committee says doubling of farm income means increasing real or inflation-adjusted incomes.

The Dalwai panel, Gulati said, points out that the real incomes of farmers’ need to register a compound annual growth rate of 10.4% for farmers’ incomes to double by 2022. Against this projections, Gulati estimated that real incomes of farmers grew just 2.5% between 2012-13 and 2016-17.

But there could be another way to show an increase .

Economist Ramesh Chand, in-charge of agriculture at Niti Aayog, the government’s main policy think-tank, said the government could count out parttime farmers or people whose main occupation isn’t farming. This will mean a reduction in the total headcount, resulting, statistically, in higher incomes.

“In our country, many people do farming as a secondary occupation. If the principal usual status is not farming, then such a person should not be counted as a farmer. This way, when the denominator (cultivator headcount) decreases, it will naturally increase farm income,” Chand said in an interview.

The usual principal status, according to the methodology used by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) for employment surveys, is a measure of employment based on time spent on a particular economic activity. Principal status therefore denotes “the activity accounting for majority of a person’s time over the year”, while subsidiary status refers to activities other than the principal activity “undertaken on a short- term basis”.

According to Gulati’s calculations, in the first four years of the previous UPA regime, agriculture GDP grew 3.9%. Compared to this, farm growth under the current government stands at 1.9%.