Stya Paul, a renowned freedom fighter, educationist and industrialist, passed away here on Monday. He was 91. Paul, who was the founder chairman of Apeejay Education Society which runs a large number of schools and other institutes across north India, was ailing for quite some time.
Paul, who also founded the Apeejay Stya University which is located in Haryana’s Gurgaon, was jailed during the 1942 Quit India Movement. He was the elder brother of London-based NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul.
He is survived by his daughter and grandchildren. Expressing shock at the demise of his brother, Labour peer Swraj Paul said, “To me he was more than a brother. He was a great brother and an outstanding human being. He was like a father to me as I had lost my parents at an young age.”
The NRI industrialist is flying here to attend the funeral to be held today.
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Assam officer denied bail in funding case
Age Corespondent
New Delhi
In a first National Investigating Agency probed case coming to the Supreme Court proved to be major victory for the newly set up federal agency as the top court refused to entertain the bail petition of an Assam officer booked by it for funding a banned organisation. The NIA had alleged that Assam’s social welfare deputy director Redaul Hussain Khan had been found “diverting” funds to Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) (DHDJ), banned by the Union government. The trial court had granted Mr Khan bail on the health ground.