The man selected by the Maoist captors of Chhattisgarh collector Alex Paul Menon to mediate with the government today said the abduction was part of a “war” over resources but voiced hope that the officer would be freed. “The abduction is situational, it depends on what is happening there,” B.D. Sharma said, drawing attention to what the rebels brand as state-sponsored atrocities on tribals. The comments, four days after the rebels snatched...
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SIT challenges acquittals in Sardarpura massacre case-Manas Dasgupta
-The Hindu The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team has challenged in the Gujarat High Court a fast track court's judgment acquitting 31 persons of the Sardarpura massacre, witnessed during the 2002 communal riots in the State. (Thirty-three persons were killed by a mob at Sardarpura in Mehsana district on March 1, 2002.) On November 9 last, Special court judge S. C. Srivastava sentenced 31 persons to life imprisonment and exonerated 11 others...
More »Gujarat HC quashes sedition cases against TOI
-The Times of India The Gujarat high court on Wednesday quashed the charges of sedition that former Ahmedabad police commissioner O P Mathur had filed against The Times of India's Ahmedabad edition in June 2008. The court quashed all five FIRs, which accused the resident editor and the correspondent of inciting people against the police. The FIRs had been filed after TOI ran a series of investigative reports on Mathur's suspected underworld...
More »CBI cracks racket of Fake I-T returns, I-T refunds-Rahul Tripathi
In what the CBI says could be the “tip of an iceberg”, the agency has found at least 1,100 cases of allegedly fraudulent refund checks issued by the Income Tax department that has resulted in the illegal withdrawal of more than Rs 6 crore over the last three months. The CBI has arrested two persons, including an accountant: Pankaj Kumar Gupta and Amit Kumar Sharma. Both, allegedly in league with IT...
More »An Ineffectual Start for Elder Sister by Dan Morrison
When Mamata Banerjee defeated the Communist Party of India (Marxist) last May after 34 years of power in West Bengal, her victory was portrayed by optimists as the beginning of a Kolkata Spring. Free of the communists’ rural thugs and urban heelers, the story went, the state would finally enter the 21st century. One year after Banerjee’s landslide, however, the new boss is looking a lot like the old one —...
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