Bihar town deputy mayor held with two call girls
Patna: The deputy mayor of a Bihar town was held with two call girls from a hotel room here, the police said on Tuesday. Gaya Deputy Mayor Mohan Srivastava was arrested late Monday night from a posh hotel room here during a police raid. “Srivastava was caught along with two call girls in a hotel room,” a police official said. According to police officials, six people, including Gaya’s deputy mayor, were arrested in connection with a sex racket when police raided a hotel near Frazer Road in the heart of Patna. They were taken to the Kotwali police station for questioning. It is for the first time in Bihar that a deputy mayor has been arrested in connection with a sex racket. Gaya is about 100 km from Patna. Last month, Gaya police busted a thriving sex racket at a gents’ hair cutting parlour running on premises owned by Mohan Srivastava. Srivastava, however, denied ownership of the premises where the alleged sex racket was going on. He later admitted that the premises belonged to his wife but claimed he has nothing to do with the property.
Four policemen injured in Kashmir gunfight
Srinagar: Four policemen were injured on Tuesday in a gunfight between security forces and separatist guerrillas in Kashmir’s Baramulla district, an official said. A senior police official told IANS that security forces closed in on a house in Chankhan locality of Sopore town, 55 km from here, Tuesday morning following information about the presence of a group of guerrillas. “As the cordon around the house was being tightened, hiding militants hurled a grenade and started indiscriminate firing at the security forces,” the official said. “Four of our boys have been injured in the initial firing by the militants. All of them are being shifted to Srinagar for treatment,” he added. He said that one of the policemen “sustained serious injuries”. “Exchange of gunfire is on in the area. We have marked off the house and all escape routes for the militants have been plugged.” Besides the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the police, soldiers of counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were also engaged in the operation. (IANS)
After polio eradication, Big B wants women’s emancipation
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for polio eradication, is proud that the country has rid itself of the virus. His next focus is emancipation of the girl child. He hopes to achieve similar results as he helped for polio.”As UN ambassador for Girl Child, I hope and pray we accomplish same results as polio…rid nation of discrimination against women,” Amitabh posted on the microblogging site Twitter on Monday night. The 71-year-old feels a sense of pride in the progress that the country has been making in ridding itself of polio. “Finally! India has been removed from endemic list. By end of 2014, we shall be polio free country. A sense of pride,” he tweeted. The actor also congratulated himself on this victory. “As UN ambassador for polio, I feel congratulated on the eradication of the disease. I worked really very hard on it for years,” added the thespian, who has been associated with the cause for a decade now and has been urging parents all over India to take their children to the polio booths for the anti-virus drops. He also featured in TV campaigns for the cause. (IANS)
Couple dies in mud wall collapse
Malkangiri (Odisha): A couple died after a mud wall collapsed on them at MV 79 in Odisha’s Malkangiri district, police said here on Tuesday. The couple died in their sleep last night and the incident came to light in the morning when a child saw a body in the debris, police said. The deceased were identified as Manoranjan Roy (57) and his wife Jyotsna Ray (47). The bodies were sent for post-mortem and a case of unnatural death registered, they said. (PTI)