-IANS Delhi Police on Tuesday gave clean chit to eight people booked in constable Subhash Tomar's death during the anti-rape protests here in December last year. Appearing for the police, additional solicitor general (ASG) Sidharth Luthra told the court that no evidence was found to link the eight accused to the constable's death. However, Luthra said that they were involved in destruction of public property near India Gate during the protests against the...
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15 Governors are former civil servants, police officers, Armymen -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu After the recent gubernatorial changes, as many as 15 of those now ensconced in Raj Bhavans are former civil servants, police officers or Army officers; four of them are ex-IAS officers, eight are former IPS officers, and one is an ex-Army chief. With the appointment of the former Central Bureau of Investigation boss, Ashwani Kumar, and ex-National Security Guards chief Nikhil Kumar as Governors of Nagaland and Kerala last week,...
More »Raids expose packaged drinking water quality-S Vijay Kumar
-The Hindu Expose comes close on the heels of arresting two BIS scientists Chennai: A joint surprise check conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has revealed shocking violations of basic safety parameters in packaged drinking water units in and around Chennai. A special team comprising CBI investigators and BIS scientists conducted simultaneous checks on the units at random last week and found that the...
More »HC transfers Virar RTI activist murder investigation to CID -Mustafa Plumber
-DNA The Bombay High Court has transferred the investigation into the killing of RTI activist Premkant Jha to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after the local police failed to make any headway in the case. Jha was shot dead in broad daylight in Virar on February 24, 2012. He was an RTI activist as well as the national level public relations officer of the Bhrashtachar Atyachar Virodhi Samiti. At first a...
More »An abomination called AFSPA-Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Hindu Mr. Chidambaram has sought to blame the Army for the failure to repeal the draconian Act but the government is equally guilty as it has abdicated responsibility in the matter At an institute that is virtually owned, funded and run by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did the unthinkable the other day. He virtually attacked the Army for refusing to review and amend the draconian...
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