Alert in Pathankot after army uniform found in suspicious bag
Chandigarh, May 29 (IANS): Security agencies and the Punjab Police were on alert on Monday in Pathankot district following the recovery of a suspicious bag that contained an army uniform. A search operation was launched early on Monday by the Punjab Police and other security agencies in the district, especially near the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot. The abandoned bag was found late on Sunday night. Security agencies remained on alert in border districts of Gurdaspur and Pathankot following the terrorist attack on the IAF base at Pathankot in January 2016 and the terror attack in Dinanagar town in Gurdaspur district in July 2015.
Delhi government gives Rs 5 lakh to kin of lynched driver
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS): The Delhi government on Monday announced Rs 5 lakh compensation to the kin of an e-rickshaw driver who was lynched here for trying to stop two men from urinating in public. Earlier, Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu visited the family of Kumar and handed over a cheque of Rs 50,000 to his family. Kumar, 32, was beaten to death on Saturday by a group of 15 youths after he objected to two of them urinating near the GTB Nagar Metro station.
Cong suspends four for killing ox
Thiruvananthapuram, May 29 (IANS): The Congress in Kerala on Monday suspended four members for publicly slashing the head of an ox as part of protests in support of beef consumption. The Kannur police on Sunday night registered a case against the Youth Congress activists. The killing of the animal has been condemned by Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. Youth Congress leader Regil Makutty and three others was suspended by the national leadership and the state Congress followed suit, a party leader said.
Cow vigilantes in Maha hammer youths suspected of possessing beef
Nagpur, May 29 (IANS): A group of cow vigilantes attacked two youths of Malegaon town in Maharashtra’s Washim district last week after suspecting them of possessing banned beef, police said on Monday. Washim’s Superintendent of Police Mokshada Patil told media persons that at least seven “gau rakshaks” have been booked as also the two youths who allegedly were found in possession of beef. Patil said samples of the meat collected from the duo have been sent to a government lab in Nagpur for analysis and ascertain whether it was beef or not.
Bobbitised godman never harassed daughter: Victim’s mother
Thiruvananthapuram, May 29 (IANS): Ten days after a 54-year-old godman was bobbitised by a young woman, her mother in a letter to Kerala Police on Monday said the victim was not keeping in the best of mental health and the Swami had never harassed her as claimed by her daughter. In her letter to state police chief T.P. Senkumar, the victim’s mother said the Swami had never harassed the 23-year-old woman at all, but chided her for an affair with a friend of hers when he was bobbitised on May 18. Meanwhile, the Swami is convalescing at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital where he has been remanded to custody. He will be produced before a court here if discharged before June 3.
In a relief to liquor companies in Bihar, the Supreme Court on Monday gave them another two months’ time till July 31 to dispose of their unsold stocks. The liquor companies had moved the top court on May 24, seeking time for destroying their unsold liquor stocks worth Rs 200 crore lying in warehouses in Bihar. The counsel for Bihar government also urged the court that no more further extension be given to the liquor firms after July 31.
After he was caught on camera using a red beacon on his vehicle on Monday, West Bengal Minister Arup Biswas justified it the state government had not banned it yet. “Unless and until the state government bans it, how can we do it (stop using red beacon),” Biswas told the media in Siliguri. In April, the Centre announced a ban on red beacons atop official vehicles of VVIPs, effective from May 1. Ambulances, fire services, police and Army can still use blue flashing beacons.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has provisionally attached 30kg gold bars worth Rs.8,56,99,350 belonging to businessman J.Sekhar Reddy and his associates in the new-for-old currency notes scam. The action, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, follows the provisional attachment of Rs 34 crore in new currency notes belonging to Reddy and his associates on May 5. In a statement issued here, the ED said following demonetisation of old Rs 500/1,000 notes, the the Income Tax Department searched various places belonging to Reddy, Managing Partner of SRS Mining, and seized about Rs 97 crore in old currency notes, Rs 34 crore in new currency notes and 177 kg of gold bars.
