-IANS The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Wednesday demanded an explanation from the government on former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom's revelations on the Bofors payoff scandal, including the safe passage to main accused Ottavio Quattrochchi. The BJP said it had always questioned the safe passage to Italian businessman Quattrochchi in the Rs.1,500 crore Bofors gun deal in the 1980s. "The entire government of late Rajiv Gandhi was out to secure...
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Panchayat lets off rapists with warning, victim hangs self
-PTI A 13-year-old gangrape victim allegedly committed suicide after she was not allowed to file a police complaint allegedly by the local panchayat, who reportedly let off the rapists with a mere warning. The girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a dupatta in her house in the Garhmukteshwar town under Panchsheel Nagar district, 70 km from here, on Saturday evening, the police said. The victim was allegedly gangraped by three youths...
More »Foodgrains scam: CBI searches 12 locations
-The Hindu Sleuths from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches in 12 locations in Lucknow district on Saturday in connection with the multi-crore foodgrains scam in Uttar Pradesh. The scam relates to sale of wheat and rice — meant for distribution to the poor — in the black market from 2002 to 2007, and was estimated to be of the order of around Rs. 35,000 crore. The locations included those in...
More »45 cases, 41 acquittals: Maharashtra cops want judge probed-Smita Nair
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Maharashtra Police has sought the Bombay High Court’s intervention and redressal in the case of a special judge in Kolhapur who has ordered acquittals in 41 of the 45 cases she has presided over since 2007. The ACB is not in agreement with 31 of those 41 acquittals and has already challenged 27 of them. It has also urged the high court to probe the...
More »Press Council dismisses complaint against TOI
-The Times of India The Press Council of India, headed by retired Supreme Court judge, Markandey Katju, has dismissed a complaint filed against The Times of India by a senior Haryana IPS officer, Anil Dawra, who is presently posted as state ADGP (training). The TOI on January 28, 2010 had published a story "IG let off easily in Sarita case," on the basis of an RTI query. Sarita was allegedly raped by...
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