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Best Bakery convicts seek transfer to Gujarat

Mumbai: Eight convicts in the Best Bakery case have requested the Bombay High Court to transfer them from Kolhapur Central Jail to Vadodara in Gujarat so that they stay closer to their families. The eight have been lodged in Kolhapur jail since February 2007 after a special court here convicted them for burning 14 people alive inside Best Bakery in Vadodara. The convicts have written a letter to the High Court which has converted it into a writ petition. The Court would hear their plea in due course.

UP govt employees clash with police

Lucknow: Several persons were injured on Thursday when state government employees clashed with police while trying to take out a march and gherao the Vidhan Bhawan here. Demanding pay structure and allowance equivalent to the Central government staff,the irate employees indulged in brick batting,after which the police resorted to lathicharge to control the mob.

Maran discharged from hospital

New Delhi: Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran was discharged from Apollo Hospital here on Thursday. He underwent a surgery for removal of urinary tract stone on Wednesday. He was all right and was discharged at around 12 noon, a doctor at the hospital said.