Court convicts 15 people, including BJP MLA and two former MPs
Sitamarhi (Bihar): A fast track court on Tuesday convicted 15 people, including an MLA and two former Lok Sabha members in a case related to an attack on Sitamarhi collectorate and subsequent police firing in which five persons were killed in 1998. Those convicted include BJP MLA Ram Naresh Yadav, former JD(U) MP from Sitamarhi Nawal Kishore Rai, former Sheohar MP and RJD leader Anwarul Haq, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) district president Ram Lashan Singh Kushwaha and general secretary Mohan Kumar Singh. All of them have been sent to district jail. Pronouncing the verdict, Fast Track Court judge Mohammad Irshad Alam here held them guilty under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 307 (attempt to murder), 322 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 147 (punishment for rioting) and 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon). (PTI)
HC moved seeking cancer patient’s free treatment at AIIMS
New Delhi: The brother of a blood cancer patient has moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to AIIMS to provide him free and continuous treatment, saying he cannot afford the same. The plea said 30-year-old Satish has been undergoing chemotherapy at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and his family has already spent around Rs.3 lakh on treatment. The plea — by Satish’s brother Anand Kumar Morya, filed through advocate Ashok Aggarwal — said Satish, a resident of Mathura who used to run a photocopy-cum-lamination shop, was diagnosed with Burkitt’s Leukemia, a form of blood cancer, in March, barely three months after his marriage. Due to his condition, the shop had to be closed down and machines sold off to bear the cost of treatment, said the plea. Satish’s father, a class-IV railway employee with a monthly salary of Rs.12,000, was now the sole earning member in a family of six, it said. The patient’s father has exhausted all his savings on the treatment, and even his Provident Fund account is left with a meagre balance of Rs.24,550, said the petition. (IANS)
Woman attempts suicide in Punjab
Pathankot: A 32-year-old married woman allegedly attempted to commit suicide by immolating herself and received severe burn injuries at Phool Piyare village here, police said today. Nisha set herself on fire today following a heated argument with her sister-in-law, they said. She received 80 per cent burn injuries, they said, adding that her condition is stated to be critical. An investigation into the matter is on, they added. (PTI)
Three killed in gang war outside Hazaribagh court
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand): A gangster and his two aides were shot dead allegedly after members of a rival gang opened fire on them outside the District court here today, a senior police officer said. Sushil Srivastav, already convicted in a murder case and lodged in Hazaribagh jail, was brought to the court today for trial in another case of criminal offence, when unidentified assailants fired indiscriminately, killing the gangster, a resident of Patratu town, and his two aides who had come for the hearing, Superintendent of Police Hazaribagh Akhilesh Kumar Jha said. An old rivalry between the gangs of Srivastav and Kishore Pandey was blamed for the outrageous court shootout, the SP said adding in October last year two aides of Pandey were shot dead and his nephew injured in a shootout between the two gangs at Kadma Market in Jamshedpur. A massive hunt was on to apprehend the culprits who managed to escape, police said. (PTI)
Shiv Sena ‘blesses’ Muslim MBA who was denied job
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena showered its ‘blessings’ on Zeeshan Ali Khan, a Muslim MBA who was recently refused a job in a well-known diamond export company but now absorbed by the Adani Group in Mumbai. “If something like this had happened, it is condemnable in the strongest terms… The boy was refused a job on grounds of religion, but now he has got an even bigger offer from Adani Group, and he is happy…” the party said in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana on Tuesday. “Go ahead, Zeeshan…!” it added. In view of these developments, the Sena wondered if India is truly a ‘secular’ country, but nobody has any answer to this. “Use the Hindus only for votes and get the full support of the Muslims… Until now, this is considered as ‘secularism’ in India. Our view is the same… those Muslims who believe that India is their motherland and they are willing to sacrifice themselves for her, they belong to us… As the citizens of this country, they are entitled to all the rights and privileges,” the Sena said. (IANS)
