Setalvad files for anticipatory bail
VADODARA: Teesta Setalvad,secretary of the Citizens for Justice and Peace,has filed for anticipatory bail at the Third Fast Track Court in Godhra on January 27,after another former member of CJP implicated her in the case of digging up of graves of riot victims without informing the police and administration.
Mahoba farmer dies,probe ordered
LUCKNOW: Babbu Kushwaha,the farmer who had set himself on fire in protest against the inadequate compensation for his land in Kabrai area of Mahoba on Friday,succumbed to his injuries early Saturday. A magisterial probe has been ordered into the farmers death.
BSY govt hijacked church probe: Moily
BANGALORE: Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily accused the B S Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka on Saturday of hijacking the commission that probed the 2008 attacks on churches,mainly in Mangalore. Moily hails from Mangalore. The commissions final report does not blame any specific group for the attacks.
3 dead,25 ailing after UP gas leak
SANDILA UP: Three persons died and about 25 were hospitalised following leak of a poisonous gas,believed to be phosgene,from a drug factory in Sandila in Hardoi district early Saturday.