BJP leader shot dead in Bihar, violent protests follow
PATNA: A senior state BJP leader, Srikant Bharti was shot dead in Bihar’s Siwan district, triggering violent protests on Monday by his supporters, police said. Bharti was killed by unidentified men on Sunday night when he was returning from a marriage party. “Hundreds of supporters of the murdered leader, mostly BJP local leaders and workers, blocked roads and burnt tyres. They also raised slogans against the state government,” a district police official said. Tension prevailed in the area but the situation was brought under control as additional security forces were deployed, police officials said. Bharti was a confidant of BJP MP from Siwan Om Prakash Yadav. He contested the 2010 state assembly polls but lost.Bharti’s family members and supporters considered his murder as a political killing planned by rivals.(IANS)
Two IEDs recovered in Ch’garh; two Naxals arrested
Raipur:Two Maoists were arrested and improvised explosive devices (IED), including a powerful one planted by Naxals to harm security personnel, were recovered on Monday from separate places in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said. A joint squad of security forces found two IEDs – one of around 20 kgs and another of 2.5 kgs, placed beneath Chintagufa-Dornapal route under Chintagufa police station limits, Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range SRP Kalluri said.The joint contingent of CRPF, its elite battalion CoBRA and district force was carrying anti-Naxal operation from past few days in the region. When they reached almost a km away from Chintagufa on Dornapal, Jagargunda road, at around 10 AM they spotted a 20-kg IED packed in a container placed beneath the road. Subsequently, another explosive of 2.5 kgs was detected at a nearby place in the restive patch, the IG said.The IEDs were immediately destroyed by the bomb disposal squad, the IG added. (PTI)
3 family members die after consuming poisonous tea in UP
Farukhabad (UP):Three persons of a family, including two minors, on Monday died and four got seriously ill after consuming poisonous tea in Kampil area here, police said. Munnilal (60), his grandsons Vinay (8), Ankit (7) and four others, including his sons, had consumed the tea after which they felt uneasy and were rushed to a hospital where Munnilal, Vinay and Ankit were declared dead, SP Ajay Singh Yadav said. The condition of other four was stated to be stable, he said. According to the SP, some pesticide fell in the tea during its preparation due to which the deaths took place. The police is probing the matter, he added. (PTI)
Four of family found dead in Madhya Pradesh
Panna (MP): A woman and her three minor children were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their residence in Old Panna village area here, police said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off that a foul smell was emanating from a house in Old Panna village area under Kotwali Police Station, a police team went there and broke open the door to find decomposed bodies of Savitri Bai (40) and her three children identified as Shilpa (17), Pushpendra (14) and Karan (10), Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) R D Prajapati said. Prajapati said the bodies appeared to be three-four days old with insects inhabiting them. FSL team and dog squad has been called to further probe the incident, he said. Savitri Bai went to jail in connection with her husband’s murder in Amaanganj in 1995 and after release from prison she had started living with a person identified as Prakash Bhat. (PTI)
Eye witness killing case- police searching three named accused
Muzaffarnagar:Three accused have been identified by the police in the Ramniwas murder case in Shamli. A 55-year-old man, who was an eye-witness in his son’s murder case, was allegedly shot dead on last Saturday by three bike-borne assailants in Shamli district, three days before he was to record his statement in a court in connection with the case, police said. A case has been registered against three persons- Sachin, Deepak and Pankaj. Sachin and Deepak were also accused in the deceased’s son’s murder. The accused Sachin and Deepak were threatening him to withdraw the case. Ramniwas’s son Nitu was murdered in October 2013 and the case was pending in court, Sharma said, adding, the father was to record his statement in the court in this connection on November 25. (PTI)
Mokhada villager arrested for raping tribal woman
Palghar:A 41-year-old man from Mokhada village here was arrested for allegedly raping a 24-year-old tribal woman, police said on Monday. Accused Tatu Mauji Pawar was arrested last night, PI Vilas Mathe of the Mokhada police station told PTI on Monday. Pawar forced himself on the young housewife on the night of November 10 after he barged into her house at Asha Kudavpada area from the back door, when everyone, including her two children were asleep, police said. When she tried to raise an alarm, the accused gagged her. After sexually abusing the woman, he threatened to kill her husband and father-in-law if she revealed anything about the incident, said a complaint filed by the victim last evening. Pawar was been charged under various sections of the IPC and subsequently arrested. (PTI)
Farmer shot dead in Meerut
Meerut:A farmer was shot dead by bike-borne assailants while his nephew was injured in the attack near Bhaisa village here, police said on Monday. 55-year-old Narendra Singh was yesterday going to Meerut from Niloha town on his bike with his 25-year-old nephew Monu. The bike-borne men opened firing on them near Mawana-Khurd bypass, SSP Omkar Singh said. While Narendra died on the spot, Monu who was shot in the thigh, saved himself by hiding in a nearby sugarcane field, he added. On basis of a complaint registered by Monu, four youths of the same village have been booked in this connection, Singh said adding, two of them have been arrested. (PTI)