 Hello and welcome to the Daily Roundup, I am Sumedha. I am Praveen and we will take a look at our top stories. Our top story of the day, we are focusing on Pragya Thakur's statements on Hemant Karkare and Narendra Modi's brazen defence of these statements. We will also be discussing in more detail the role of Hemant Karkare. The election commission has today issued a notice to the BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur after her remarks on the 26-11 martyr Hemant Karkare had sparked a white condemnation. Pragya Singh Thakur, the 2008 Maligaw Blast accused on Thursday had said that the 26-11 martyr Hemant Karkare had died because she had cursed him. She said in a quote, I told him that you will be finished and he was killed by terrorists in less than two months. Pragya Thakur is contesting as a BJP candidate from Bhopal and had said these statements at a press conference on Thursday. Her comments had also outraged the retired and serving IPS officers and the IPS officers association had also issued a statement against her comments. The Congress and the CPIM had also lashed out at the BJP over her statements. On Friday, Pragya Singh Thakur had offered an apology stating that if the enemies outside the country are pleased, I will draw my statement and she had also asked for forgiveness. The bigger question here is that the Prime Minister has also defended her induction in a Times Now interview that he had given and these statements are also very problematic and they have started a widespread condemnation as well. So, what do you make of this development? You know, the two-three things, two-three aspects of this. Let's start with who Hemant Karkare was because sometime back the incidents took place. It was really the Bombay terror attacks, the Mumbai terror attacks. If you remember, a lot of people died and if you remember that it was Ajmal Kassab was arrested, captured during a firefight in which Hamal Hemant Karkare was killed. But it was because of his bravery and the bravery of his fellow officers that person who was driving the car was shot and therefore the car crashed and Ajmal Kassab could therefore be captured. Now, this is the same police officer who was instrumental in cracking the terror case, which involved Avinabh Bharat, Lieutenant Colonel Purohit, Pregyas Singh Thakur and a set of other people who were involved in four major blasts. And this was a terror module which the Mumbai ATS, Maharashtra ATS could crack because of the Able leadership of Hemant Karkare who lost his life later in the attack in Bombay. Now, it's important to also understand the other aspect of it that here she is talking about curses, a medieval mindset which exists and the fact that the BJP seems to believe that by definition terrorists are only Muslims and Hindus by definition cannot be terrorists. The reality which Hemant Karkare always argued was that the terror knows no religion either as perpetrators or as victims and this is what Nikhil Waghli discusses with us in the interview today. Colonel Purohit and this gang, Sadvi, I should not call him Sadvi, Pregyas Thakur, this gang, so these people made a conspiracy that they wanted to kill the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat and I'm not telling you a secret, Hemant Karkare said to Adwadi that all these people are so radical and terrorists that he wanted to kill the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat and this was hidden in the newspapers because Karkare had told some journalists. Our next big story in our next segment we're focusing on the allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI Ranjan Goghoy, a 35-year-old woman who used to work as a junior court assistant has at the Supreme Court of India has written to 22 judges of the courts on Friday. She has alleged that the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Goghoy had made sexual advances towards her at his residence and office on October 10th and 11th in the year 2018. The woman has gone on to state graphic details of the alleged incidents in her testimony which is later sent to the judges. Following the allegations, the Supreme Court held a special hearing on Saturday with a three judge bench comprising of CJI justice Ranjan Goghoy himself, Arun Mishra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna as well and they stated that they're dealing with the matter in terms of a greater public importance by touching upon the independence of the judiciary. Chief Justice of India Ranjan Goghoy on Saturday denied the sexual harassment charges which were level against him and he's gone on to state that there is a bigger plot to deactivate the office of the Chief Justice of India. Now there are quite a few questions that are bringing the incident into the spotlight. So the first thing being that he's sitting on the bench which is hearing an inquiry against himself. So what do you make of this precedent and give us an insight into how you see this legally and otherwise as well? Well we have to really ask lawyers to see this legally as a lepers that's what we are. We would comment on two things which has already been commented by others as well that this was an order which claimed it was not an order. So when the judges pass the order they say that we are not passing an order but yet it's an order. The second part of it is that it is signed by Arun Mishra and Sanjeev Khanna the two other fellow judges on that bench but Chief Justice Ranjan Goghoy has not signed the order and if he hasn't signed the order then how was he presiding over the bench? So these are issues of propriety which also comes up that can you have an order which is a non-order. Was it actually a press conference in the guise of a hearing because it's also given advice to the media how it should conduct itself and lastly that the Supreme Court has a procedure for hearing sexual harassment cases. Why is it that it was not referred to what is an already an established procedure in fact Arun Mishra did play a role in notifying the Supreme Court procedure on sexual harassment. So why it wasn't referred but it has been left to now a further judicial procedures which will be done is not clear to us. So I think there are important issues over here because at the end of it if a person levels a very serious allegation against the Chief Justice it is not enough that justice is done but justice should also appear to be done and in this case I'm afraid what the judges have done has actually led to questions of this kind which will dog them in the future as well. For our next story we're looking at a news click exclusive where Gautam Navlaka spoke to Lieutenant General D. S. Hooda who was the general officer commanding in chief of the army's northern command from June 2014 to November 2016 when the attack on the Uri had happened. It was under his supervision that the cross punitive strikes were our popularly referred to as the surgical strikes were planned and executed on September 29th in 2016. So in a telling excerpt from the interview he's spoken to us at length about the lack of a clear political objective in Kashmir take a look at this interview. There has not been a clearly defined political objective where the government says this is what we need you to do and that is why you see because of this mismatch of between political a clearly defined political objective and military objective we often hear statements like you know the military has brought the situation under control but unfortunately the political solutions that were to follow have not taken place and therefore we don't find a resolution to Kashmir. So I think we now need to start you know changing our outlook and saying that we need a political military strategy. Too often we've tried to say in these situations that you know military does its own job and then the politics will do its own job so I'm saying we need a clearly defined political objective and from this political objective will flow how the military should be acting. So as we've seen that there is in the election season a more muscular approach to internal security is being talked about as a key point in the election agenda Huda has made a compelling case for a more balanced approach to Kashmir and other critical national security issues as well. In our sports section we're focusing on the women's football march in India and finally the Indian women's football team is currently enjoying a purple patch having won their fifth South Asian championship in Nepal earlier. The squad is backed up by the best ever performance in the qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic as well. In a news click exclusive veteran goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan who has played for the West Ham ladies in England and a 20-year-old rising star Dalima Shibar have spoken to us take a look at this interview. Considering the number of matches we've played in the previous years I think this is the most that we've played in the past three four months and it's good and we've showed the results of getting like we've always I mean I've always talked about the requirement of exposure playing international matches and we've proved why this was why the exposures were important and we've got the result of that so great to have that and it's important that this thing continues and shouldn't stop here. I firmly believe that we have a lot of potential and we can reach even greater heights if this continues. You know they always say there's no practice like match practice over the course of these 19 games how have you seen your game improve or grow? I think the improvement has been a lot if we talk about the combinational play of the team or we talk about individual players performance I think it has been immense because playing with teams like Romania in Turkey and playing with some good teams like Myanmar and traveling to Hong Kong and playing the international teams I think the growth has been a lot in terms of the combinational play of the team or the individual performance. So what is it like when you're not a part of the national team setup? What do you guys do then where do you go to play? Come to 420 grams. I just want to get a sense of what is the level of involvement on a day-to-day basis with the sport for women and you guys are sort of going against the grain anyway because it's not Delhi is not a place that produces elite level footballers since Arjun Pandit. So a little bit about how your setup is on a daily basis. So personally what happens like what my life has been like it has always been like get up in the morning train because you I have never had girls to play with and like go get up and train because I wanted to do it and then go to school go to college and come back and it has always been like managing education and sports both on the same hand and with national team it's like you're getting a lot of matches and you're staying there and the main focus is that but the main focus is football but here when we back home that main focus our main focus is like diverted into a lot of other things because considering you come from Delhi you cannot like you know it's it's a it's very hard to just concentrate on sports because that is not really something that is supported in a state like Delhi. 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