The murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood appears to be a "crime of passion" and whether it was part of any larger conspiracy is still a matter of investigation, Central Bureau of Investigation officials said on Tuesday.
A senior Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Madhya Pradesh is being investigated by Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood in which three persons including a woman architect and the alleged contract killer have been arrested.
The alleged main conspirator in Right To Information activist Shehla Masood's murder case, Zahida Pervez on Monday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh of putting pressure on her husband to divorce her.
In a new turn in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, one of the prime accused and alleged contract killer, Irfan, on Thursday told special CBI court in Indore that he wanted to record his confessional statement.
The main accused in Right to Information activist Shehla Masood murder case architect Zahida Parvez and her close associate Saba Farooqui on Monday refused to undergo a lie-detection test in Bhopal on Monday.
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The image of Madhya Pradesh has taken a beating due to the recent spurt in incidents of crime, be it the murder of Right to Information activist Shehla Masood or the killing of young Indian Police Service officer, Narendra Kumar allegedly by the growing mining mafia in the state.
The police can now name them in their supplementary charge sheet, an official said. In a late evening statement, the government said that this is a purely procedural matter, adding that the elected government has no role to play in this.
Injustices cannot be evaluated, modified, twisted, suppressed or brushed aside. The colour of the anti-corruption movement should be the tricolour, says Shehla Masood
Jhurjhura, the majestic tigress of Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh, was killed on May 18 this year. After her cold-blooded murder by influential people from Madhya Pradesh's political world, six more tigers have been found dead. Or killed in cold blood, notes social activist and tiger conservationist Shehla Masood.
Although the authorities had maintained till the last minute that Mevani and his supporters did not have permission to hold the event, it seems the rally organisers and Delhi Police reached a compromise later.
While the tiger will most likely not go extinct in the next half-century, its current trajectory is catastrophic. A combination of poor governance, bureaucratic sloth and lack of leadership is leading us towards an ecological disaster.
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The insensitive babus were not bothered and the politicians knew the tigers do not vote.... Please cancel the tiger as India's national animal as we are shamefully and disgustingly incapable of protecting the sanctity of its habitat.
Acting on a report on rediff.com, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Thursday sought a report from the Madhya Pradesh Government over the death of a tigress in the Aandhavgarh Sanctuary.
"Why did you file (the chargesheet) without approval? You don't have a legal department," the court said.
"The ruling party's student wing -- ABVP -- has been emboldened to intervene violently in any attempt by students to have open discussions about matters that the Sangh Parivar deems to be inappropriate. This is thuggish censorship. We stand against it," the statement reads.
Three government officials have been suspended in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for quoting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as having said that Kashmir was a flashpoint that could trigger a fourth war with India, a media report said on Saturday.
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Several Kashmiris claimed they were harassed and attacked after the terrorist attack in Pulwama district in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force men were killed.
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According to Ilmi, she was invited by RSS-supported Forum for Awareness of National Security to speak at a seminar on "Triple Talaq" and the university had pressurised the organisers to change the subject to "Muslim's women's empowerment: Issues and challenges" and drop her name from the speaker's list.
After Ramjas College witnessed large-scale violence over a seminar, SGTB Khalsa College has decided to postpone a street-play competition till peace and normalcy returned to North Campus of Delhi University.
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In a sweeping Facebook post, he attacked government critics, including opposition members, students leaders, activists and media, and called for a 'surgical strike' within India.
The event 'Student Youth Assembly Against Discrimination', which was scheduled to be held at the Janata Shikshan Sanstha in Worli, has now been shifted to Tilak Nagar.
'We demand immediate release of all public representatives of mainstream political parties and innocent citizens,' the resolution said.
Police cited statements of various witnesses in its chargesheet to state that Kumar was walking along with the protesters where a number of unidentified persons were raising slogans during an event in the university's campus on February 9, 2016, to commemorate the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices R Banumathi and U U Lalit fixed the contempt plea for hearing on Monday when the plea alleged that by terming the execution as "judicial killing", Kumar and others have committed contempt of the court which had delivered the verdict.
Other two students are JNUSU Vice President Shehla Rashid Shora and former JNUSU President Ashutosh who has been debarred from the hostel for one year.
The bench will be headed by Justice N V Ramana and also comprise Justices S K Kaul, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kant.
The JNU student leader said, "There is an atmosphere of fear in the country and anybody who speaks against the government is threatened."
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'Those who have not lived and imbibed the social and cultural patterns of Kashmir cannot quite fathom the importance of inter-personal communication in Kashmiri society,' says David Devadas.
The Attorney General said whatever is being said by this court is sent before the United Nations.
Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, changed her Facebook profile picture holding a placard which read "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP".
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