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Ranatunga, Sachin get warrantsINDORE: First class judicial magisterate K S Tomar today issued bailable warrants against former Indian captai...

Ranatunga, Sachin get warrants

INDORE: First class judicial magisterate K S Tomar today issued bailable warrants against former Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar, captain of Sri Lankan cricket team Arjun Ranatunga and three others, directing them to appear before the court on April 28. The CJM ordered that a case under Section 420 and 406 of IPC be registered against all these persons. The order followed a petition, which alleged that these persons had cheated thousands of people of Indore in the name of organising a cricket match on December 25 last year.

SC ruling for staff

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that industrial managements cannot 8220;capriciously8221; exercise their discretion to terminate the service of a permanent confirmed employee who overstays his leave for more than seven days by a simple notice.

In a judgement having significant ramifications for employer-employee relations, the court held that clause 17g of the Industrial Employment standing orders Act 1946 didnot say that the service of a workman who overstays his leave shall stand automatically terminated by simple notice.

Raasi takeover

MUMBAI: The three month-long 8220;hostile takeover8221; drama over the Hyderabad-based Raasi Cements abruptly ended on Monday with the executive chairman and chief promoter of Raasi Cement Ltd RCL, Dr B V Raju, selling out his entire 32 per cent holding to India Cements.

Rape protest

IMPHAL: There were large-scale protests in Manipur today against the rape of a woman by two armymen at gun-point in the Kairenphaibi area of Bishenpur district last Saturday, hours after the departure of Defence Minister George Fernandes.

BJP probe panel

MUMBAI: Maharashtra BJP unit today decided to set up two committees to probe the party8217;s debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls in the State and to suggest an action plan for the various programmes to be undertaken by the Sena-BJP Government during the next 20 months.