said the CBI verdict has been challenged on several grounds. "One of the grounds was that there was a delay of more than six years in recording the statements of the women (victims) by the CBI after the incident," the defence counsel said.
Fresh arson broke out in riot-ravaged Kandhamal district on Monday after a lull of three weeks as eight houses of a particular community were set ablaze at villages. Miscreants set ablaze the houses though the police confirmed only one incident at Sujeli village under G Udaygiri police station area.
According to the latest assessment, 800 houses were damaged in the violence since December 24 with 580 families, including 336 below the poverty line, affected.
The minister was on his way to Motihari to attend PM Modi's rally. He never made it.
Additional forces were deployed and curfew clamped in sensitive areas of Orissa's Kandhamal district on Thursday in the wake of fresh violence and arson in the region.Nearly 100 houses and a couple of churches and prayer houses were either set afire or damaged in about half-a-dozen places under Daringibadi, G Udaygiri and Tikabali police stations in the wee hours of Thursday morning, sources said.
Gunfire, arson and looting allegedly by Communist Party of India-Marxist activists was reported from recaptured Bhumi Ucched Pratirod Committee strongholds of Garchakraberia, Sonachura and Gokulnagar in Nandigram, as the bandh called by the entire opposition paralysed normal life in West Bengal. Fresh violence broke out in Nandigram recently as the CPI-M and the Trinamool Congress cadre fight to gain control over the area.
The protesters blocked roads in several areas of Mumbai, forced shops to shut down.
Against the backdrop of the opposition closing ranks on the CAA issue and the BJP faring poorly in several state elections recently, the 2022 electoral battle is unlikely to be a cakewalk for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
'Around 10 pm, a senior police officer from Hazratganj police station came and started abusing me with the choicest words...' 'He said he will ensure that I rot in jail all my life.' 'This police officer then told a lady constable to slap me.' 'She did that, but he was not happy with the force of the slap.' 'He got up, pulled me by my hair and hit me in my stomach and knees.' 'He was abusing me as a bastard non-stop.'
Tension prevailed in the old city area here when members of two groups engaged in brick-batting and arson during a religious procession, the police said on Wednesday.
With 150,000 Tibetan citizens living in exile on its soil, many of whom shuttle between India and Tibet frequently, India nevertheless has a role in the resolution of this issue. Also, with Tibet under its control China has become India's Himalayan neighbour
The industries in Nashik, which bore the brunt of violence after MNS chief Raj Thackeray's arrest in Mumbai, have suffered losses to the tune of Rs 400 crore. The incidents of stone-pelting, arson and exodus of North Indian workers from the region have hit the local industries hard, Prashant Sathe, general secretary of Nashik Industries Manufacturers' Association (NIMA) said.
No fresh incidents of violence were reported on Thursday and the police have so far arrested 56 persons for rioting and arson amid an exodus of 7,000 North Indians from Nasik.
Passing judgment in the case, metropolitan magistrate S S Sharma, who is presiding over the riot cases of 1992, said all the 13 people against whom trial proceedings were launched, were acquitted of all charges as the police had failed to prove the charges against them
"We are not happy with the judicial inquiry ordered by the Orissa government. Since both Central and state governments failed to check the spread of arson in Kandhamal, there must be a CBI probe," said Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians. He observed that Christians in riot-hit areas of Kandhamal were denied the right to worship on Christmas due to widespread violence and attack on places of worship.
US authorities have pressed hate crime charges against an American teenager accused of setting fire to the "patka" of a Sikh student.
The Sikh community in New Jersey has demanded a full-fledged inquiry into an incident in which a high school student allegedly set afire the "patka" or small turban worn by a fellow Sikh student, in an unprovoked attack.
A student of the Aligarh Muslim University, who was wanted in connection with the recent incidents of violence in the campus, was arrested from his hometown Khalilabad in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, said the police.
Judge K Uthirapathi, however, set off the term against the period already spent by them as undertrials. The charges against the 35 included attempt to murder, rioting and arson and also possession of explosives. Of the 166 accused in the cases relating to the bomb blasts which rocked the city on February 14 1998 during the visit of BJP leader L K Advani which killed 58 people, 158 have been convicted of various charges.
Nanda had reportedly left a suicide note saying the scrutiny she and her family had experienced following an explosion in her restaurant was too much to handle.
A fast food restaurant owned by an Indo-Canadian was destroyed along with a few other shops when an explosion ripped through a commercial block in Vancouver in a suspected arson attack.
Arson and clashes broke out between groups of two communities in Sehra on Friday even as police resorted to cane-charge, lobbed tear-gas shells and opened fire in the air to disperse them, officials said.
Violence broke out on Monday after an attack on a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and prominent anti-conversion activist Laxmanananda Saraswati. Paramilitary forces, including Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force, have been deployed in sensitive areas.
Assam government has decided to create the Special Branch of police department as a separate autonomous body and form a Research and Analysis Centre for socio-economic and cultural developments in the state.
She had a narrow escape when several bombs exploded in a busy commercial area here minutes after her convoy passed through it.
However, no refund of the premium will be given in case of cancellation of the ticket
Samrite, who contested the byelection from behind the bars after he was detained in a case of loot and arson following an agitation against a contractor eight months ago, polled a total of 28,779 votes as against 25,045 polled by Bhatere.
The agitation continued to paralyse normal life across the state
A special CBI court on August 28 had sentenced Ram Rahim Singh to 20 years in prison.
Eleven more deaths were reported on Thursday, taking the total death toll to 38, a senior Delhi Health Department official told PTI.
Security has been beefed up in the East Godavari district, in view of Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham's planned indefinite fast at Kirlampudi from Friday for inclusion of the community in the Backward Class category.
Setting up an in-house radio station for enhanced communication between students and the authorities, removal of overnight tea stalls and eateries inside the campus were some of the other steps spelt out by the vice chancellor of the university.
The EC's action came a day after the BJP "withheld" the CD after it invited criticism over its contents on Babri issue and Godhra train fire.
The statement comes in the aftermath of the Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's resignation.
Her name has been included in the same FIR in which other Dera functionaries Aditya Insan and Surinder Dhiman, among others, had been booked for allegedly inciting violence and arson, police said.
Thirty-two-year old Nimisha Tiwari, her 18-month-old daughter Ananya and four-year-old son Vakadham were killed when a fire broke out in their two-story house.
A 57-year-old Indian man has been charged with killing his pregnant daughter, son-in-law and grandson by setting afire their apartment in Illinois in the United States because he was upset over her marrying a man from a "lower caste".
Gen Rawat said, while addressing a gathering at a health summit, leaders emerge from crowds but are not those who lead people in 'inappropriate directions'.
Dera Sacha Sauda, a quasi-religious cult with hundreds of thousands of followers, offers a wide variety of products and educational and health services, its website states.
In the villages of Chatingabari, Kamalpur, Dakapara and others in the troubled Nandigram block I intermittent gun shots rang out as panicked people were seen leaving their homes for safe places, eyewitnesses said.
