Quicktakes

Jailbreak bid

JAMMU: EleVEN Pakistani detainees tried to escape from the Kotbhalwal jail, about ten km from here, by digging a tunnel in which one of them died of asphyxiation early today. At least ten security personnel who tried to stop them were injured in stone-pelting by the prisoners.

Ghose murder

NEW DELHI: The CBI today chargesheeted 11 people including commander-in-chief of the outlawed ULFA for allegedly abducting social activist Sanjoy Ghose in Assam about two years ago for the purpose of killing8217;. The chargesheet filed in aGuwahati court named ULFA commander Paresh Baruah among others, a CBI release said.

Lucknow violence

LUCKNOW: Six persons, including a policeman, were injured when two sects of Muslims clashed over taking out of a procession in the walled city area here today. Trouble started when people belonging to a sect of Muslims took out a procession in Thakurganj locality of the walled city and the other objected to it, State Principal Secretary home V K Mittal told reporters here. The rival groups clashed pelting stones at each other in which an SHO and five others were injured.

New Goa speaker

PANAJI: Former chief minister Pratapsinh Rane of the ruling Congress was today elected speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly, defeating Vishwas Satarkar of BJP. The motion supporting Rane8217;s candidature was carried with 25 votes in favour and ten against. Four MGP members abstained from voting.