CRPF constable arrested for trying to outrage girl’s modesty
Hyderabad: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable has been arrested for allegedly attempting to outrage the modesty of a 14-year-old girl at CRPF Campus in Chandrayangutta area here, the police said here on Tuesday. The accused Mukesh G, (24), a native of Rajasthan, who had come to the campus three months ago for training, allegedly caught hold of the girl, who is a CRPF sub-inspector’s daughter on December 27 when she was alone and attempted to outrage her modesty, a police officer said. “However, the girl raised an alarm and her mother rushed to her rescue,” Chandrayangutta Police Station Inspector N Rama Rao said. The girl’s parents lodged a police complaint on December 28 after which, the accused was charged with wrongful confinement, assault and using criminal force on woman with intent to outrage her modesty, besides relevant sections of the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. A case was registered against the CRPF constable after which he was arrested on Monday and sent to judicial remand, the police officer said. (PTI)
Jaswant Singh discharged, to get supportive care at home
New Delhi: Former BJP leader Jaswant Singh was on Tuesday discharged from Army Research and Referral hospital here in a “minimally conscious state” and will continue with “supportive care” at home, four months after he was admitted there with severe head injuries. “Jaswant Singh is in minimally conscious state and is having unassisted breathing. He has been discharged to home for supportive care,” Defence Ministry officials said. They added that Singh’s heart rhythm and BP are normal. The 76-year-old leader was admitted on August 8 to the hospital in a critical condition after his family found him lying on the floor of his house in an unconscious state. Singh, who was in coma, had been on life support system all this while. At the hospital, Singh was being given total parenteral nutrition (TPN) which delivers nutrients intravenously when a patient is unable to eat on his/her own. Singh, who had also served as external affairs and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government, was expelled from BJP early this year after he decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Barmer in Rajasthan as an independent when the party decided to field Col (Retd) Sonaram Chaudhary. He had lost the election. (PTI)
Ordinance decision ‘black’ ‘unjust’: Mamata
Kharagpur (WB): The Centre’s recommendation for promulgation of an ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act came under a stinging attack on Tuesday from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who termed the decision as “black” and “unjust” and said her party would fight against it. “We will fight against the ‘black’ and ‘unjust’ ordinance on land acquisition by burning symbolic copies of it,” Banerjee, Trinamool Congress supremo, said addressing a party workers’ meeting here. “The central government has ‘forcefully’ brought an ordinance on land acquisition. The country is going through a dangerous phase due to the BJP government,” she said. She also referred to the Centre’s plan to stop ‘100 Days work’ programme in a bid to sell the country by bringing in FDI in insurance and defence. (PTI)
AAP questions BJP’s move to regularise 895 colonies in Delhi
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday questioned the BJP-led Union government’s move to regularise 895 unauthorised colonies in Delhi saying residents of the settlements will not get any concrete benefit even if an Ordinance was approved to extend relief to them. The party said the decision will merely extend the cut off date for regularisation of such colonies,over the previous resolution that was brought by the UPA government on 2007. “The cut off date has merely been extended through updating the previous resolution adopted by the UPA government in 2007. “But the residents of the colonies will still not be able to get even a map sanctioned from the Municipal Corporation. There will still not be any development work through MCD or MLA funds,” AAP leader Manish Sisodia said in a press conference here. Sisodia said that BJP and Congress treat the unauthorised colony residents like “milch cows” by offering them a “lollipop” ahead of every election. In a decision that will benefit about 60 lakh people in poll-bound Delhi, Union Cabinet yesterday approved an Ordinance to regularise 895 unauthorised colonies which have come up till June 1 this year. (PTI)