MP officials foil child marriage
Indore: Authorities on Sunday foiled the marriage of a 14-year-old minor girl to a 21-year-old man in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a state government official said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of state government officials and police reached Kelod Kankar village and stopped a pre-wedding ceremony underway, said an MP Women and Child Development Department official. The marriage was slated for November 20, the official informed. “The parents of the girl have given an undertaking they would not get their daughter married till she attains adulthood. They were let off with a warning and not booked under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act,” the official added. (PTI)
Man held with foreign currency
New Delhi: An Afghan national was apprehended by CISF personnel at the Delhi airport on Sunday for allegedly carrying foreign currency worth Rs 16 lakh, officials said. Sarwar Baryily was intercepted around 6 am at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. He was going to take a flight to Kabul, they said. USD 15,000, dirham 26, 500 and Afghan currency 3,880 worth about Rs 16 lakh were recovered from Baryily’s bag, the officials said. He was handed over to Customs authorities by Central Industrial Security Force personnel as the “high volume of currency being carried by him was unexplained”, a senior official said. (PTI)
India Post releases special cover
Kolkata: India Post has released a special cover on Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Young India’ magazine to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary. The special cover was released at an ongoing philatelic exhibition here on Saturday. ‘Young India’, a weekly journal, was published by Mahatma Gandhi from 1919 to 1931 to propagate his ideology of Satyagraha and non-violence. The philatelic exhibition is being organised by the West Bengal circle of India Post from November 16 to 21, a statement issued here said. A ‘Gandhi gallery’ was inaugurated at the General Post Office here and a special cover on ‘Calcutta Tramways’ was released inside a moving tram in the presence of senior officials of India Post and state transport department, it said. Special philatelic covers on ‘Poets of Bengal’, ‘Sports Legends’, ‘Writers of Bengal’, ‘Melodies of Bengal’ and on legendary film personalities of Bengal, Rituparno Ghosh and Suchitra Sen, will be released, the statement said. A letterbox painting competition will be organised for the children to make them aware of the role of ubiquitous letterboxes that dot the streets, it added. (PTI)
‘Bandit queen’ nabbed in MP
Satna: Dreaded bandit queen Sadhna Patel, active for a long time along the UP-MP border, was arrested from Madhya Pradesh’s Satna, police said on Sunday. Along with Patel, five other dacoits were also arrested. A huge cache of arms and ammunition have been recovered from them. According to reports, Satna Superintendent of Police Riyaz Iqbal had launched a campaign against dacoits in the area. Police said that first they got information that Patel was in the Delhi-NCR or Jhansi area, but then came to know that she, along with her aides, was seen in the Karian forest area of Satna. Acting on the tip off, police sent a team to the jungle, surrounded the dacoits and arrested them. Patel was wanted in many cases in UP and MP. She carried a reward of Rs 30,000, the police said. (IANS)