Lone absconding accused arrested Co-accused produced in juvenile court As 15 lakh State government employees and gazetted officers went on strike on Thursday to protest the gruesome killing of Additional Collector of Nashik Yashwant Sonawane, the State government cracked the whip on the oil, sand and milk mafia in the State. “In the last 36 hours, we have arrested 170 persons in raids conducted across the State,” K.P. Raghuvanshi, Additional Director-General of Police,...

IAWS contests police decision to file FIR against her The Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS) has strongly contested the Maharashtra police decision to file an FIR against .Ilina Sen, wife of Binayak Sen, for her alleged failure to inform the police about the participation of foreign delegates at an academic conference organised by the IAWS and the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Vishwavidyalaya (MGAV) in Wardha last week. Prof. Ilina Sen, who...

In the middle of a debate about corruption in high places, the curse struck in a macabre manner from the base of the pyramid on the eve of the celebration of the republic. An additional collector was burnt alive in daylight by a gang that sprinkled kerosene on him after the 44-year-old officer caught their aides pilfering fuel from a tanker in Maharashtra’s Nashik today. The prime suspect, who has a history...

While the farmers claim that one protesting farmer allegedly died due to the brutal lathicharge by police, the police denies by saying that he died of cardiac arrest. The farmer was identified as Gulab of Dewari village. DIG/SSP, Allahabad, Ramkumar said: "Gulab died of cardiac arrest when his family was on their way to nursing home but were trapped in the agitation. On reaching the nursing home, doctors declared him...

Villagers of Netai in Lalgarh could not conceal their grievance against the state administration when district police superintendent Monoj Verma and district magistrate Surendra Gupta reached the village on Sunday morning to supervise arrangements before governor M K Narayanan's visit on Wednesday. Gupta and Verma arrived at the village, escorted by heavy security, around 11am. Gupta started visiting different portions of the village and found a tube well that was not...