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EC detects 24,000 illegal I-cards

     Lakhisarai (Bihar): About 24,000 illegally issued voter's identity cards were detected on Sunday in Surajgarha Assembly constituency by the Election Commission and two block development officers have been recommended for suspension in the case. EC's special advisor K J Rao, who had come here to review the poll arrangements, detected about 24,000 voter's identity cards issued to people in Lakhisarai and Surajgarha block in violation of the 14 norms determined by the EC for issuance of I-cards, official sources said. He later recommended suspension of the Block Development Officers of Lakhisarai and Surajgarha, Anil Chaudhary and Ram Prakash respectively, with charges of negligence, the sources said.

Seven killed as train hits car in Jalpaiguri (Go To Top)

    Jalpaiguri: At least seven people were killed and 12 injured today when a car carrying a marriage party was hit by the down Alipurduar New Jalpaiguri Express at an unmanned level crossing in Dooars, 70 km east of New Jalpaiguri Railway station. The injured were admitted to the Malbajar and Nagrahata Primary Health Centres. Officer-in-Charge of Banarhat Police Station Tirtha Bhattacharjee said the train dragged the vehicle for 500 metres. Gas cutters had been rushed to the spot to extricate the vehicle from under the train.

Nanavati report in budget session (Go To Top)

    Yamuna Nagar: Union Law Minister H R Bhardwaj today said the Nanavati Commission report on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 would be tabled during the coming budget session of Parliament. He was replying to questions by journalists when on a visit to Mahakaleshwar mutt, about 45 km from here, for a 'Basant Panchmi' function. The Sikh community and opposition parties have been demanding that the report be "made public" ever since Justice G T Nanavati, a retired Supreme Court judge, submitted the two-volume, 185-page report to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil in New Delhi on Wednesday. An estimated 3,000 people were killed in the National Capital in the anti-Sikh riots that followed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31, 1984. The commission of inquiry's report contains findings on whether any political party had organised the riots.