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One killed, another injured in Mumbai police encounter

     Mumbai: The anti-terrorist squad of the Mumbai police killed one man and injured another, Raju Thalla, in an encounter on Sunday. According to the police, the shoot-out took place at about 7 PM between five people travelling in a white Tata Indigo car and the anti-terrorist squad. The other three escaped in the incident. A pistol, a revolver and several fake license plates from the car were seized by the Police.

Two BSF jawans, three polling personnel injured in landmine blast

     Daltonganj: Five persons, including two BSF jawans, were injured on Monday in a landmine blast at Metar uner Panki constituency in Palamu district of Jharkhand. The police said that the jawans were escorting three polling personnel when they stepped on a landmine which went off around 7.30 AM. Earlier, the CPI (Maoists) had blown up a police-patrolling vehicle on 3rd February in which six policemen and a civilian driver were killed on the spot. Meanwhile, amidst tight security, repolling is underway in 660 booths and 68 booths in Bihar and Jharkhand respectively, where voting was held on 3rd February. Election Commission had ordered the repoll following complaints of large-scale electoral irregularities and violence reported during Thursday`s balloting.

Nanavati to submit report on Feb 9 (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The Justice GT Nanavati Commission, which is probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, is expected to submit its report to the government on February 9. According to the Commission sources, "The report has been finalised and it will be submitted to the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Wednesday". The report would have been submitted on the last day of January, i.e. 31, but the same was not done, as the Home Minister was not in the capital. The Commissions term expired on January 31. The Justice G T Nanavati report is set to kindle the interest of many, as it is the second commission probing the sequence of events that led to large-scale violence against the Sikh community in the aftermath of assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31. Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the capital and elsewhere in the carnage, which continued for 3-4 days from the evening of October 31, over 3000 Sikhs, were killed. The Commission was appointed by the previous NDA government in 1999 of which Akali Dal was a prominent constituent. The committee went into probe the allegations levelled against several Congress leaders connected with the riots. Among the prominent people who deposed before the commission included former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao for his role as the then Home Minister, while Vasant Sathe, Kamal Nath, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar and Dharamdas Shastri faced allegations. However, former Union Minister H K L Bhagat refused to appear before the Commission on health grounds. Bhagat's son filed an affidavit on his behalf stating that the former Union Minister was suffering from mental illness.