PDP youth president survives bid on life
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youth President Waheed Parra survived an assassination attempt in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district, party sources said on Tuesday. Parra was returning from a condolence meeting on Monday evening when gunmen on a motorcycle fired at his bullet-proof vehicle in Chadoora area. “The bullets hit the vehicle but he survived the attack,” a police officer said on the condition of anonymity. Police said they were investigating the incident. (IANS)
Official held for alleged sexual harassment of women inmates
Hajipur: Close on the heels of the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape scandal rocking the state, another case of alleged sexual harassment of women at a short stay home here has come to light with the police on Tuesday saying it has arrested the main accused, a Vaishali district administration official. District project manager Manmohan Kumar Singh, who was entrusted with the supervision of the short stay home, was arrested late Monday night, town police station inspector Om Prakash said. The police is searching for four co-accused in the case, which include two women — Priyanka and Karuna Kumar, in-charge and assistant, respectively, of a women’s help line — who have been accused of abetting the crime, the inspector said. Singh was arrested after an FIR was lodged as per directions of district magistrate Rajiv Raushan. The district magistrate said a complaint was received from inmates of the short stay home on July 19 in which they had accused Singh of harassment and the others of abetment. The district magistrate had set up an inquiry committee, which submitted its report two days ago and the FIR was lodged subsequently. (PTI)
Outsiders’ bid to hoist Tricolour at Lal Chowk turns ugly
Srinagar: A bid by a group of six “outsiders” to unfurl the Tricolour at the Lal Chowk city centre here on the eve of Independence Day turned ugly with some local residents objecting to the flag hoisting and trying to rough up three of them, the police said on Tuesday. The trio caught in a spat with the local residents over their flag hoisting bid had to be rescued by the police. As the group, apparently from outside Srinagar, sought to hoist the flag at the historic Ghantaghar (Clock Tower) at Lal Chowk, the local people assembled there and began raising slogans objecting to the flag-hoisting, the police said. Sensing the aggressiveness of the crowd, three persons of the group fled the spot while the three others were caught in an argument with the local residents. The police, however, intervened in time and before the three could be roughed up, the police whisked them away, said an official. The three were later let off, the official said. (PTI)
Teen couple commits suicide in Rajasthan
Kota: A teen couple allegedly committed suicide after the girl’s family refused to accept their relationship, police said on Tuesday. Their bodies were found on Tuesday in an agricultural field in Girdharpura village of Jhalawar district, said Jagdish Meena, the SHO at Jhalrapatan police station. The two had eloped from their homes on Monday and allegedly committed suicide after consuming some poisonous substance, he said. However, no suicide note was recovered from the spot. A case under Section 174 of the CrPC has been lodged and further investigation into the matter is underway, the SHO added. (PTI)