New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor will not be questioned for now
The Delhi police is set to question Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case this week, after Tarar recently announced in a TV interview that she would like to assist the probe. Pushkar was found dead in a hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014, a day after a spat on Twitter with Tarar over an alleged affair with her husband, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. Since Tarar cannot be summoned from Pakistan, the police said they had prepared a detailed questionnaire to be sent to her through formal channels. They said Tharoor will not be questioned for now.
Uttar Pradesh: Witness in Asaram case killed in Muzaffarnagar
A 32-year-old named Akhil Gupta, a witness in the Asaram rape case in Surat, was shot dead in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday night. Gupta’s family said he had been presented as a government witness by the Ahmedabad police in the sexual assault case lodged against the so-called godman as he had worked as a cook in his Ahmedabad ashram. Gupta is also the third witness in the Asaram to have been attacked. Two others having been targeted in March and June 2014, one of them fatally.
Odisha: IIT professor censured for harassing two girls
A professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar, was pulled up over Saturday and Sunday for harassing two M Tech students, threatening to give them poor marks if they didn’t visit his office frequently, even at night. After a complaint was lodged in April 2014, a meeting of the Board of Governors in Delhi decided to strip him of all administrative posts and demote him from dean to professor. He was not named in the report. A source in the institute said that he had not been removed from IIT because he had decided to quit over the next few months.
Assam: 12 NDFB(S) fighters arrested
Twelve militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (S) were apprehended over the weekend in a joint operation by security forces along the Indo-Bhutan border. The police said two of the 12 had been on the Wanted list over the December 23 massacre during which the NDFB(S) killed over 70 Adivasis around the state. Six rifles, five pistols, four grenades, 12 magazines and 784 rounds of ammunition were seized.
Jharkhand: NIA makes fresh arrest in Burdwan blast case
On Sunday, the National Investigation Agency and the state police arrested Rejaul Karim, an alleged operative of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a banned terror outfit, in connection with the Burdwan blast. According to the police, Karim was working as a labourer under a railway contractor in Sahebganj, where he was arrested from. He is thought to be a close associate of the main accused in the blast which occurred on October 2, 2014. Soon after the blast, the police launched a manhunt for him after recovering 39 bombs from his house.
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The Delhi police is set to question Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case this week, after Tarar recently announced in a TV interview that she would like to assist the probe. Pushkar was found dead in a hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014, a day after a spat on Twitter with Tarar over an alleged affair with her husband, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. Since Tarar cannot be summoned from Pakistan, the police said they had prepared a detailed questionnaire to be sent to her through formal channels. They said Tharoor will not be questioned for now.
Uttar Pradesh: Witness in Asaram case killed in Muzaffarnagar
A 32-year-old named Akhil Gupta, a witness in the Asaram rape case in Surat, was shot dead in Muzaffarnagar on Sunday night. Gupta’s family said he had been presented as a government witness by the Ahmedabad police in the sexual assault case lodged against the so-called godman as he had worked as a cook in his Ahmedabad ashram. Gupta is also the third witness in the Asaram to have been attacked. Two others having been targeted in March and June 2014, one of them fatally.
Odisha: IIT professor censured for harassing two girls
A professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar, was pulled up over Saturday and Sunday for harassing two M Tech students, threatening to give them poor marks if they didn’t visit his office frequently, even at night. After a complaint was lodged in April 2014, a meeting of the Board of Governors in Delhi decided to strip him of all administrative posts and demote him from dean to professor. He was not named in the report. A source in the institute said that he had not been removed from IIT because he had decided to quit over the next few months.
Assam: 12 NDFB(S) fighters arrested
Twelve militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (S) were apprehended over the weekend in a joint operation by security forces along the Indo-Bhutan border. The police said two of the 12 had been on the Wanted list over the December 23 massacre during which the NDFB(S) killed over 70 Adivasis around the state. Six rifles, five pistols, four grenades, 12 magazines and 784 rounds of ammunition were seized.
Jharkhand: NIA makes fresh arrest in Burdwan blast case
On Sunday, the National Investigation Agency and the state police arrested Rejaul Karim, an alleged operative of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a banned terror outfit, in connection with the Burdwan blast. According to the police, Karim was working as a labourer under a railway contractor in Sahebganj, where he was arrested from. He is thought to be a close associate of the main accused in the blast which occurred on October 2, 2014. Soon after the blast, the police launched a manhunt for him after recovering 39 bombs from his house.
