The Evening Wrap: Supreme Court grants bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who has been in custody for nearly two years and is accused of offences under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), saying “every person has a right to free expression”. A three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to produce Kappan before the trial court within three days for release on bail subject to conditions that would ensure his presence in the trial. The Bench directed that Kappan would remain in Delhi for six weeks immediately following his release and report to the local police station every Monday. At the end of the six weeks, he was at liberty to re-locate to his native place, Malappuram, in Kerala. He would continue to mark his presence in the local police station there on Mondays. Kappan would be present either in person or through his lawyer at every date of his trial in the case. He should surrender his passport to the investigating agency, if not already done. He should not get in touch with any person associated with the case. The court said restrictions on his movement could be relaxed, if need be in order to allow him to attend proceedings or seek bail in a money laundering case initiated against him. The court refrained from commenting in its order about the progress of the investigation or the prosecution material against Kappan, saying the charges in the case were yet to be filed though the chargesheet was submitted in the trial court way back in April 2021. It said Kappan was eligible for bail on the basis of the length of the custody undergone and the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case. Uttar Pradesh, represented by senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, objected to the plea for bail by Kappan, represented by senior advocate Kapil Sibal and advocate Haris Beeran, saying he was the “terror gang” PFI’s “agent provocateur”, financed and sent to incite riots in Hathras following the alleged gangrape of a Dalit girl. His attempt was “nipped in the bud” when the police arrested him along with three others while travelling in a car to Hathras on October 5, 2020. Jethmalani alleged the “literature” found in the car contained messages like ‘Justice for Hathras’ and “optics to stir up feelings”. There was allegedly a “toolkit” or a “riot incitement handbook”. “Every person has a right to free expression. He may be trying to propagate an idea that there is something and the victim requires justice and so ‘let us be a common voice’... Will that be a crime in the eyes of the law?” Chief Justice Lalit asked Uttar Pradesh. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat reminded how protests at India Gate had once led to changes in the rape law. “Sometimes protests are necessary to highlight deficiencies at some point… Till now, you (Uttar Pradesh) have not shown anything provocative,” Justice Bhat addressed Jethmalani. The court asked Jethmalani whether there was anything in the literature which pointed in the direction that Kappan was going to incite riots in Hathras. The court enquired if any explosives were found in the vehicle, to which the State replied in the negative. “So, at best what you can say is this man was travelling in a vehicle with three others when you apprehended him on the Yamuna Expressway and inside the car there was some literature…” Chief Justice Lalit summarised. Sibal said the literature was not found on Kappan’s person. These documents were unrelated to India. “This is not prosecution but persecution,” the senior lawyer said. “We are only looking at the question of bail here…,” the Chief Justice told Sibal and turned to Jethmalani to point out that “the man has undergone almost two years in custody. Is there any immediate prospect of the investigation seeing a sort of culmination?” Jethmalani assured the court that the investigation would be completed shortly. The delay in framing of charges was due to the process of turning someone an approver in the case. Rather than seeking bail now, Kappan could apply for a discharge later, he suggested. “Your attempts to turn someone approver is ongoing, which means the matter is not ripe for framing of charges,” Chief Justice Lalit told the Uttar Pradesh side. “It will be in two months,” Jethmalani replied. “Mr. Jethmalani, we will grant him bail,” Chief Justice Lalit said. Fight is between structure of Indian state and opposition, says Rahul Gandhi On the second day of his Bharat Joda Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the fight in India today was not between one political party and another, but a fight between the structure of the Indian state and the opposition. Alleging that the BJP had taken control of all the institutions and inserted their people in most of those institutions such as the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and the Income-Tax department, Gandhi said, “We are not fighting anymore against a political party.” “This is a difficult fight,” he said during an interaction with journalists at Puliyoorkurichi in Kanniyakumari district. “The media is not with the Opposition. Not because you do not want to be, but because you are under pressure or your owners have a particular relationship. So, this is not an easy fight. And a lot of people do not want to fight. It is easier to make peace with the BJP. Fold hands in front of them and your life will be easier,” Gandhi lamented. “Unfortunately, this is not my training and this is not my character. My character is to fight for a certain idea of India, certain notions of the country and many people in the Congress party are convinced of this fact. That is really what the fight is,” he reiterated. Asked whether the battle of ideology had entered a decisive phase with the beginning of the yatra, he said it had been going on for a “couple of thousand years” now between two visions. “I think it will continue. In India, there have always been two visions. One is rigid and controlling and other is plural and open-minded. We are playing our role,” he asserted. “The idea behind the yatra was to connect with the people and listen to the people to understand what they are facing. The idea is also to communicate to them a few things. Communicate the fact that India has changed. The institutional framework of India has been captured and there is an attempt to impose one vision while the country has multiple visions,” he said. Asked about the criticism levelled by the BJP, he said, “Of course the BJP will have an opinion. For us in the Congress, this is a journey. An attempt at understanding what is going on on the ground in India and an attempt at undoing some of the damage the BJP and the RSS have done. On whether he would contest the election for the post of party president, he was non-committal. “The [Congress] president election will take place, and your question will be answered. Whether I will become president or not will become very clear once the election takes place. So, wait till that time.” “You said I have not decided. I have very clearly decided in my mind what I am going to do. There is no confusion in my mind at all,” he told reporters on the second day of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kanniyakumari. Asked whether it was not a contradiction that while he was leading a Yatra, he was shunning the responsibility of becoming the leader, Rahul Gandhi said actually there was no contradiction. He made it clear that he was “not leading the Yatra” but was “only participating in the Yatra” “The Yatra has the Congress party’s political element to it because it is a Congress party Yatra. I agreed to join the yatra, partially because I believed in the ideas of the Congress and it is important that those ideals are spread in the country,” he said. He also decided to join the Yatra partially because it would be a very good experience for him personally. “It is a powerful thing to do not just from the political point of view, but also from the personal point of view. It is a different way of thinking about and looking at things. Hopefully, there will be some understanding about myself and this beautiful country from this Yatra. I think four months later, I will be little wiser,” he added. No criminal connect with Delhi riots, argues Umar Khalid; High Court reserves order on bail plea The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its order on a bail plea by Umar Khalid in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020 as the former JNU student contended that he neither had any “criminal role” in the violence nor any “conspiratorial connect” with any other accused in the matter. Khalid, arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020, said that there was no material to support the case of the prosecution against him and that he raised issues that several others were discussing in the other country, including those concerning the Citizenship Amendment Act. Maintaining that there was nothing illegal in raising such issues, he also said that his Amravati speech — which forms the basis of the allegations against him — not only had a categorical call for non-violence but also did not lead to violence anywhere. Accusing the prosecution of “making stuff up as it went along”, he argued that parts of the Delhi police charge sheet have no basis and the conspiracy alleged by the prosecution should be “towards violence in Delhi” and not “raising issues of injustice”. “The only overt act attributed to me (by the prosecution) is the speech (in Amravati in Maharashtra)... that was a public event. That did not lead to violence anywhere. To simplify and say ‘oh that speech in Amaravati was targeted towards Delhi’ (is not right). Donald Trump went to Ahmedabad also (and there was no violence there). We have the liberty to travel anywhere to India and make speeches if we want to,” senior advocate Trideep Pais, appearing for Khalid, told a bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul. “My speech has a categorical call for non-violence and I request your lordship to read the speech as a whole and not in the manner in which my learned friend (prosecutor) wants to dissect it, take one sentence and then place it on his own conjecture… This speech does not show any conspiratorial connect with anybody, any other accused, or any violence whatsoever,” he further told the bench, also comprising Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar. Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured. The violence erupted during the protests against CAA and NRC. The court had issued notice to the Delhi Police on Khalid’s bail plea in April. The Delhi Police, represented by special public prosecutor Amit Prasad, has opposed the bail plea by Khalid saying the speech delivered by him in Amravati in February 2020 was a “very calculated speech” which brought various points including Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, suppression of Muslims and Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). “Is the opposition to Article 370 or the abolition of triple talaq or the CAA illegal in itself? No. To show that two persons are opposed to the CAA – there are several. Former judges have made statements against CAA,” Pais argued on Friday as he submitted that other than showing “commonality of thinking”, the police has not shown criminal “meeting of minds” to sustain a case of conspiracy. The senior lawyer emphasised that there were no allegations of “advocating chakka jam” against him and considering that the investigation was still going on and the case, which is still at the stage of supply of documents prior to trial, has 850 witnesses, Khalid should be released. Further contending that the present FIR which pertains to the “larger conspiracy behind the riots” has no connection with the 750 other FIRs registered by Delhi police, Pais said, “While your lordship is looking at my criticism of the charge sheet, I request your lordship, take an overall view whether this charge sheet with all its little-little pieces put together (shows that) there was a conspiracy with absolutely no link to the actual violence in Delhi or to my role or my role being criminal in any way.” He asserted that there were “contradictions” in the case that go to the “root of the matter,” witness statements do not support the allegations against him and there were no incriminating recoveries. “You say Bangladeshi women were transported to the protest site without actually showing that there were Bangladeshi women. Second, is a group of women travelling in a bus to attend a protest illegal? None of these glass bottles or chilli powder find their way to recovery as stated by the witnesses. The prosecution makes up stuff as it goes along. Many parts of the charge sheet have absolutely no basis” he said. Nirmala Sitharaman initiates crackdown on illegal loan apps To curb the menace of illegal loan apps, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been asked to prepare a ‘Whitelist’ of legal loan apps and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has been tasked with ensuring only such applications are available on app stores. All ministries and agencies have been asked to ‘take all possible actions to prevent operations of such Illegal Loan Apps’, following a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with top officials from the RBI, MEITY and the ministries of Finance and Corporate Affairs on Thursday. During the meeting, the Minister expressed concern on such apps offering loans or micro credits, especially to vulnerable & low-income group people at exorbitantly high interest rates and resorting to blackmail and criminal intimidation to recover such loans. Sitharaman also flagged the ‘possibility of money laundering, tax evasions, breach of privacy and data, and misuse of unregulated payment aggregators, shell companies, defunct NBFCs for perpetrating such actions. The central bank has also been entrusted with monitoring ‘mule or rented’ accounts that may be used for money laundering and to review and cancel dormant non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to avoid their misuse by such app operators. “The RBI will ensure that registration of payment aggregators be completed within a timeframe and no un-registered payment aggregator be allowed to function after that,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement, adding that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs will identify shell companies and de-register them to prevent their misuse. “Steps should be taken to increase cyber awareness for customers, bank employees, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders,” the Minister directed after ‘detailed deliberations on legal, technical and procedural aspects of such apps. The Ministry of Finance said it will monitor the actionable points for compliance on a regular basis. In Brief King Charles III greeted crowds singing “God Save the King” outside Buckingham Palace on Friday before making his inaugural address to Britain and the Commonwealth after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The smiling 73-year-old — the oldest monarch to ascend to the throne — shook hands and accepted flowers from well-wishers after returning to London from Scotland at the start of his reign. Charles will make his first televised address as king at 10.30 p.m. IST before being formally proclaimed king to the public at 3.30 p.m. IST on Saturday. Evening Wrap will return tomorrow. [logo] The Evening Wrap 10 SEPTEMBER 2022 [The Hindu logo] Welcome to the Evening Wrap newsletter, your guide to the day’s biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu. [[Arrow]Open in browser]( [[Mail icon]More newsletters]( Supreme Court grants bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan The [Supreme Court on Friday allowed bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan]( who has been in custody for nearly two years and is accused of offences under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), saying “every person has a right to free expression”. A three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to produce Kappan before the trial court within three days for release on bail subject to conditions that would ensure his presence in the trial. The Bench directed that Kappan would remain in Delhi for six weeks immediately following his release and report to the local police station every Monday. At the end of the six weeks, he was at liberty to re-locate to his native place, Malappuram, in Kerala. He would continue to mark his presence in the local police station there on Mondays. Kappan would be present either in person or through his lawyer at every date of his trial in the case. He should surrender his passport to the investigating agency, if not already done. He should not get in touch with any person associated with the case. The court said restrictions on his movement could be relaxed, if need be in order to allow him to attend proceedings or seek bail in a money laundering case initiated against him. The court refrained from commenting in its order about the progress of the investigation or the prosecution material against Kappan, saying the charges in the case were yet to be filed though the chargesheet was submitted in the trial court way back in April 2021. It said Kappan was eligible for bail on the basis of the length of the custody undergone and the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case. Uttar Pradesh, represented by senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, objected to the plea for bail by Kappan, represented by senior advocate Kapil Sibal and advocate Haris Beeran, saying he was the “terror gang” PFI’s “agent provocateur”, financed and sent to incite riots in Hathras following the alleged gangrape of a Dalit girl. His attempt was “nipped in the bud” when the police arrested him along with three others while travelling in a car to Hathras on October 5, 2020. Jethmalani alleged the “literature” found in the car contained messages like ‘Justice for Hathras’ and “optics to stir up feelings”. There was allegedly a “toolkit” or a “riot incitement handbook”. “Every person has a right to free expression. He may be trying to propagate an idea that there is something and the victim requires justice and so ‘let us be a common voice’... Will that be a crime in the eyes of the law?” Chief Justice Lalit asked Uttar Pradesh. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat reminded how protests at India Gate had once led to changes in the rape law. “Sometimes protests are necessary to highlight deficiencies at some point… Till now, you (Uttar Pradesh) have not shown anything provocative,” Justice Bhat addressed Jethmalani. The court asked Jethmalani whether there was anything in the literature which pointed in the direction that Kappan was going to incite riots in Hathras. The court enquired if any explosives were found in the vehicle, to which the State replied in the negative. “So, at best what you can say is this man was travelling in a vehicle with three others when you apprehended him on the Yamuna Expressway and inside the car there was some literature…” Chief Justice Lalit summarised. Sibal said the literature was not found on Kappan’s person. These documents were unrelated to India. “This is not prosecution but persecution,” the senior lawyer said. “We are only looking at the question of bail here…,” the Chief Justice told Sibal and turned to Jethmalani to point out that “the man has undergone almost two years in custody. Is there any immediate prospect of the investigation seeing a sort of culmination?” Jethmalani assured the court that the investigation would be completed shortly. The delay in framing of charges was due to the process of turning someone an approver in the case. Rather than seeking bail now, Kappan could apply for a discharge later, he suggested. “Your attempts to turn someone approver is ongoing, which means the matter is not ripe for framing of charges,” Chief Justice Lalit told the Uttar Pradesh side. “It will be in two months,” Jethmalani replied. “Mr. Jethmalani, we will grant him bail,” Chief Justice Lalit said. Fight is between structure of Indian state and opposition, says Rahul Gandhi On the second day of his Bharat Joda Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the fight in India today was not between one political party and another, but [a fight between the structure of the Indian state and the opposition](. Alleging that the BJP had taken control of all the institutions and inserted their people in most of those institutions such as the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and the Income-Tax department, Gandhi said, “We are not fighting anymore against a political party.” “This is a difficult fight,” he said during an interaction with journalists at Puliyoorkurichi in Kanniyakumari district. [Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is greeted by workers during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari district on September 9, 2022. ] “The media is not with the Opposition. Not because you do not want to be, but because you are under pressure or your owners have a particular relationship. So, this is not an easy fight. And a lot of people do not want to fight. It is easier to make peace with the BJP. Fold hands in front of them and your life will be easier,” Gandhi lamented. “Unfortunately, this is not my training and this is not my character. My character is to fight for a certain idea of India, certain notions of the country and many people in the Congress party are convinced of this fact. That is really what the fight is,” he reiterated. Asked whether the battle of ideology had entered a decisive phase with the beginning of the yatra, he said it had been going on for a “couple of thousand years” now between two visions. “I think it will continue. In India, there have always been two visions. One is rigid and controlling and other is plural and open-minded. We are playing our role,” he asserted. “The idea behind the yatra was to connect with the people and listen to the people to understand what they are facing. The idea is also to communicate to them a few things. Communicate the fact that India has changed. The institutional framework of India has been captured and there is an attempt to impose one vision while the country has multiple visions,” he said. Asked about the criticism levelled by the BJP, he said, “Of course the BJP will have an opinion. For us in the Congress, this is a journey. An attempt at understanding what is going on on the ground in India and an attempt at undoing some of the damage the BJP and the RSS have done. On whether he would contest the election for the post of party president, he was non-committal. “The [Congress] president election will take place, and your question will be answered. [Whether I will become president or not will become very clear once the election takes place](. So, wait till that time.” “You said I have not decided. I have very clearly decided in my mind what I am going to do. There is no confusion in my mind at all,” he told reporters on the second day of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kanniyakumari. Asked whether it was not a contradiction that while he was leading a Yatra, he was shunning the responsibility of becoming the leader, Rahul Gandhi said actually there was no contradiction. He made it clear that he was “not leading the Yatra” but was “only participating in the Yatra” “The Yatra has the Congress party’s political element to it because it is a Congress party Yatra. I agreed to join the yatra, partially because I believed in the ideas of the Congress and it is important that those ideals are spread in the country,” he said. He also decided to join the Yatra partially because it would be a very good experience for him personally. “It is a powerful thing to do not just from the political point of view, but also from the personal point of view. It is a different way of thinking about and looking at things. Hopefully, there will be some understanding about myself and this beautiful country from this Yatra. I think four months later, I will be little wiser,” he added. No criminal connect with Delhi riots, argues Umar Khalid; High Court reserves order on bail plea The Delhi High Court on Friday [reserved its order on a bail plea by Umar Khalid]( in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020 as the former JNU student contended that he neither had any “criminal role” in the violence nor any “conspiratorial connect” with any other accused in the matter. Khalid, arrested by Delhi Police in September 2020, said that there was no material to support the case of the prosecution against him and that he raised issues that several others were discussing in the other country, including those concerning the Citizenship Amendment Act. Maintaining that there was nothing illegal in raising such issues, he also said that his Amravati speech — which forms the basis of the allegations against him — not only had a categorical call for non-violence but also did not lead to violence anywhere. Accusing the prosecution of “making stuff up as it went along”, he argued that parts of the Delhi police charge sheet have no basis and the conspiracy alleged by the prosecution should be “towards violence in Delhi” and not “raising issues of injustice”. “The only overt act attributed to me (by the prosecution) is the speech (in Amravati in Maharashtra)... that was a public event. That did not lead to violence anywhere. To simplify and say ‘oh that speech in Amaravati was targeted towards Delhi’ (is not right). Donald Trump went to Ahmedabad also (and there was no violence there). We have the liberty to travel anywhere to India and make speeches if we want to,” senior advocate Trideep Pais, appearing for Khalid, told a bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul. “My speech has a categorical call for non-violence and I request your lordship to read the speech as a whole and not in the manner in which my learned friend (prosecutor) wants to dissect it, take one sentence and then place it on his own conjecture… This speech does not show any conspiratorial connect with anybody, any other accused, or any violence whatsoever,” he further told the bench, also comprising Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar. Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and several others have been booked under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and provisions of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being the “masterminds” of the February 2020 riots, which had left 53 people dead and over 700 injured. The violence erupted during the protests against CAA and NRC. The court had issued notice to the Delhi Police on Khalid’s bail plea in April. The Delhi Police, represented by special public prosecutor Amit Prasad, has opposed the bail plea by Khalid saying the speech delivered by him in Amravati in February 2020 was a “very calculated speech” which brought various points including Babri Masjid, triple talaq, Kashmir, suppression of Muslims and Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). “Is the opposition to Article 370 or the abolition of triple talaq or the CAA illegal in itself? No. To show that two persons are opposed to the CAA – there are several. Former judges have made statements against CAA,” Pais argued on Friday as he submitted that other than showing “commonality of thinking”, the police has not shown criminal “meeting of minds” to sustain a case of conspiracy. The senior lawyer emphasised that there were no allegations of “advocating chakka jam” against him and considering that the investigation was still going on and the case, which is still at the stage of supply of documents prior to trial, has 850 witnesses, Khalid should be released. Further contending that the present FIR which pertains to the “larger conspiracy behind the riots” has no connection with the 750 other FIRs registered by Delhi police, Pais said, “While your lordship is looking at my criticism of the charge sheet, I request your lordship, take an overall view whether this charge sheet with all its little-little pieces put together (shows that) there was a conspiracy with absolutely no link to the actual violence in Delhi or to my role or my role being criminal in any way.” He asserted that there were “contradictions” in the case that go to the “root of the matter,” witness statements do not support the allegations against him and there were no incriminating recoveries. “You say Bangladeshi women were transported to the protest site without actually showing that there were Bangladeshi women. Second, is a group of women travelling in a bus to attend a protest illegal? None of these glass bottles or chilli powder find their way to recovery as stated by the witnesses. The prosecution makes up stuff as it goes along. Many parts of the charge sheet have absolutely no basis” he said. Nirmala Sitharaman initiates crackdown on illegal loan apps To curb the menace of illegal loan apps, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been asked to prepare a ‘Whitelist’ of legal loan apps and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has been tasked with ensuring only such applications are available on app stores. All ministries and agencies have been asked to ‘take all possible actions to prevent operations of such Illegal Loan Apps’, following a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with top officials from the RBI, MEITY and the ministries of Finance and Corporate Affairs on Thursday. During the meeting, the [Minister expressed concern on such apps offering loans or micro credits]( especially to vulnerable & low-income group people at exorbitantly high interest rates and resorting to blackmail and criminal intimidation to recover such loans. Sitharaman also flagged the ‘possibility of money laundering, tax evasions, breach of privacy and data, and misuse of unregulated payment aggregators, shell companies, defunct NBFCs for perpetrating such actions. The central bank has also been entrusted with monitoring ‘mule or rented’ accounts that may be used for money laundering and to review and cancel dormant non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to avoid their misuse by such app operators. “The RBI will ensure that registration of payment aggregators be completed within a timeframe and no un-registered payment aggregator be allowed to function after that,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement, adding that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs will identify shell companies and de-register them to prevent their misuse. “Steps should be taken to increase cyber awareness for customers, bank employees, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders,” the Minister directed after ‘detailed deliberations on legal, technical and procedural aspects of such apps. The Ministry of Finance said it will monitor the actionable points for compliance on a regular basis. In Brief [Britain’s King Charles gestures outside Buckingham Palace, following the passing of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, in London on September 9, 2022. ] [King Charles III greeted crowds singing “God Save the King” outside Buckingham Palace]( on Friday before making his inaugural address to Britain and the Commonwealth after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The smiling 73-year-old — the oldest monarch to ascend to the throne — shook hands and accepted flowers from well-wishers after returning to London from Scotland at the start of his reign. Charles will make his first televised address as king at 10.30 p.m. IST before being formally proclaimed king to the public at 3.30 p.m. IST on Saturday. 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