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Ishrat: Cop doesnt want to head SIT

Ahmedabad: In a setback to the probe into 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case,Maharashtra ADGP Satyapal Singh,who had been asked to head the Special Investigation Team formed by the Gujarat High Court,has requested that he be exempted from the responsibility.

Maoists attack Bihar office,burn trucks

GAYA/SHEOHAR: Naxalites burnt an office of Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation at Sheohar and two trucks in Gaya during their 24-hour shutdown that ended Thursday night. Police said nearly 50 Naxals raided the office,forced out the labourers sleeping there,and set afire construction material stored there.