Eunuch leader shot dead by 3 assailants AHMEDABAD: Eunuch leader Sonia De was shot dead at point blank range at Nehru Bridge in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Three assailants who came on a motorbike reportedly shot her while she was eating at a roadside stall. Sonia,who was president of the All India Eunuchs Association and led a group of eunuchs to Delhi for the all-India eunuchs convention recently,had accused the Delhi Police of looting gold after the fire in East Delhi. Ex- DMK minister faces Vigilance raids Chennai: Vigilance officials on Thursday raided 15 premises belonging to senior DMK leader and former minister D Durai Murugan,on charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income during his tenure as minister for PWD,Law and Prisons from 2006 to 2009.A case was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act on Wednesday. 2 top cops punished over leaked video JAMMU: Two SSPs who,in a leaked video clip of an interrogation in Jammu,were seen suggesting derogatory names of some senior police officers and politicians,were on Thursday attached with the police headquarter by state government pending an inquiry against them by States Principal Secretary Home,B R Sharma. CBI books 3 SAMEER ex-officials NEW DELHI: The CBI has registered a case of cheating and criminal conspiracy against three former officials of the government-run Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) and an official of a US-based firm at Chennai and Mumbai. Searches were conducted at their offices. Dawood aide free of MCOCA charge NEW DELHI: Khalil Ahmed,an alleged aide of Dawood Ibrahim,has been absolved of charges under the stringent MCOCA by a city court. The court said the police had failed to prove that Khalil,in custody for threatening a businessman for extortion,was running an organised crime syndicate. Om Puri says sorry to House NEW DELHI: Actor Om Puri,who dubbed MPs as illiterate at an anti-corruption rally,has tendered an unconditional apology to Parliament. Speaker Meira Kumar is yet to take a call but the matter is likely to end after the apology,Parliament sources said. Willing to depose: Bhatt AHMEDABAD: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Thursday told the Nanavati Commission that he was willing to depose with regard to the alleged role of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in undermining a petition filed by social activist Mallika Sarabhai after the 2002 riots.
