The Embassy cable suggests a serious crime was committed on Indian soil to which U.S. diplomats were privy. The Prime Minister cannot cite lame arguments to justify inaction. Since politics is a distraction, consider the following retelling of the WikiLeaks tale. An activist dies in a traffic accident. CCTV footage from a bank nearby suggests he might have been murdered but the case is never investigated properly. Three years later,...
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CBI arrests four in Netai firing case
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested four persons from the Goaltore area of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district late on Sunday for their alleged involvement in the killing of nine residents of Netai village in a firing incident on January 7. These are the first arrests made by the CBI after it took over the case from the State's Criminal Investigation Department on February 22 acting on a Calcutta High Court...
More »Report sent to Centre on Ansari killing by Manohar Lal
The Latehar district administration has sent a report to the Union home ministry, highlighting the possible reason of the murder of MGNREGA activist Niyamat Ansari. Ansari, a social activist and an associate of socio-economist Jean Dreze, was beaten up by an armed group of Maoists and members of Van Raksha Samiti on the night of March 2 after he was dragged out of his house at Jerua village in Manika block...
More »Rebels own up to Ansari killing by Suman K Shrivastava & Santosh K Kiro
Chief minister Arjun Munda today asked director-general of police (DGP) G.S. Rath to speed up the probe into Niyamat Ansari’s killing and book the guilty at the earliest, hours after the CPI(Maoist) claimed responsibility for the March 2 murder. The development came on a day the DGP dubbed the slain MGNREGS activist a “man of debatable character”. Last night, some Maoist pamphlets in which the banned outfit claimed that it had carried...
More »Maoist hand in Drèze aide’s death
Two aides of economist Jean Drèze were targeted by unscrupulous contractors, suspected to have been backed by Maoists, for exposing rampant corruption in the Centre’s flagship rural job scheme in a Latehar village late last night. Niyamat Ansari died after he was beaten up mercilessly by a 12-member gang at Jerua village, 130km from the state capital, but his friend and colleague Bhukan Singh had a narrow escape as he wasn’t...
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