SC: HOW WAS VIKAS DUBEY ON BAIL DESPITE 63 CASES? https://twitter.com/mail_today https://facebook.com/mailtoday Vol. 13 No. 248 | Pages 24 | ` 5.00 NEW DELHI, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 www.mailtoday.in / www.mailonline.in RAJASTHAN CRISIS PILOT FUMES AS CHARGES FLY ‘We knew he (Sachin Pilot) is nikamma (worthless) and nakara (idle).We still did not question this in the interest of the Congress party.’ ‘I’m saddened but not surprised to be at the receiving end of such baseless and vexatious allegations.This is done solely to stifle legitimate concerns I raised against the Rajasthan party leadership.I will take strictest possible legal action.’ —Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan CM —Sachin Pilot, Congress leader ‘I had a conversation with Sachin-ji.He offered me money to join the BJP,but I refused.I had been offered the going rate. ’ —Giriraj Singh Malinga, Rajasthan Congress MLA SEE PAGE 2 COURT HEARING TODAY The hearing on a petition filed before Rajasthan HC by Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs against disqualification notices from the Speaker will take place at 10.30 am today. OMAR VOWS TO SUE BAGHEL Ex-J&K CM Omar Abdullah has vowed legal action against Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel for linking his release from detention with Pilot’s alleged connections with BJP. SEE PAGE 6 NOW EPIDEMIC OF SEXTORTION RATTLES DELHI Cases of blackmailers laying honey traps & also hacking private images spike as many seek online intimacy amid corona curbs C VID-19 By Chayyanika Nigam in New Delhi THERE’S a warning for those going online for intimacy just because strict physical-distancing norms are in place to slow the coronavirus spread. Cases of blackmailers laying honey traps and also hacking private images and videos are on the rise in Delhi, a Mail Today investigation has revealed. Cyber scammers have made fake profiles on various social media platforms, dating sites and chatting apps to lure potential victims, police sources have confirmed. This epidemic of sextortion has also rattled the National Capital at a time much of the flesh trade has gone digital amid a rising Covid-19 scare. Sextortion is extorting money or sexual favours from people by threatening to reveal evidence of their sexual activity. The police have received multiple complaints about businessmen being blackmailed after they had intimate video chats with partners or escort girls. Investigators also point towards a nexus between flesh traders and hackers. Turn to Page 3 40,425 cases in India, total Delhi, total 11,18,043 1,23,747 681 more deaths in 24 hours, toll 35 more 27,497 3,663 PANDEMIC 954 cases in A medical worker helps a boy draw inside a care centre at an indoor sports complex in New Delhi on Monday. deaths, toll mounts to ICC Men’s T20 World Cup that Australia was to host in October this year postponed to 2021, ICC has said. IndiGo decides to lay off 10% of its total employees, says it’s impossible now to keep flying without making ‘sacrifices’. FACEOFF OVER PEAK, SPREAD Certain Delhi areas have hit peak & there is no community spread nationally,said AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria. But Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said there is community spread and warned that ‘we should be ready for a 2nd wave. ’ 40 booked and a café owner arrested for a booze bash in Delhi’s Paschim Vihar. Whiskey, beer and hukkas found in large quantities too. 101 personnel of BSF among 223 new cases in Tripura. Maha Cabinet minister Aslam Shaikh also found infected. OXFORD VACCINE CAUSE FOR HOPE Phase I/II human trials of Oxford vaccine have showed an acceptable safety profile and homologous boosting increased antibody responses, said a study published in medical journal The Lancet. Meanwhile, human trials for Covaxin began at 12 sites, including AIIMS.