Rahul Bajaj visits memorial of RSS founder in Nagpur
Nagpur: Veteran industrialist Rahul Bajaj paid a “courtesy” visit to the memorial of RSS founder Dr K B Hedgewar in Reshimbaug area of Nagpur in Maharashtra, a Sangh functionary said on Sunday. He did not visit the Sangh headquarters located in nearby Mahal area. Bajaj, who was accompanied by Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Rajesh Loya and other Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionaries, offered flowers at the memorial on Saturday, he said. Hedgewar founded the RSS in 1925 on the day of ‘Vijayadashmi’ (Dussehra) with an aim to organise Hindu community for its cultural and spiritual regeneration. Meanwhile, a senior RSS functionary told PTI that Bajaj visited the memorial on his personal invitation. “It was a courtesy visit. I had invited Bajaj to visit the memorial whenever he comes to Nagpur. Since he was in neighbouring Wardha district, he came here. It was an informal invitation,” he said. (PTI)
Bengal CMO shuns CBI
Kolkata: A CBI team went to West Bengal state secretariat, Nabanna, to hand over some letters to senior government officials on Sunday. The team was asked to come on a working day as there was nobody in the Chief Ministers’ Office to receive the letters, a CMO official said. “They (CBI team members) have been told that since Sunday is a holiday, there is none at the CMO to receive any communication. They have been asked to come on a working day,” the official said. It was not known what the letters were about, as CBI officials were not immediately available for comment. After the Calcutta High Court withdrew his protection from arrest, the CBI had served fresh notice to former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Friday asking him to appear before it on Saturday in connection with its probe into the Saradha scam. However, Kumar is understood to have sought more time to appear before the investigating officer of the case, but that request is yet to be accepted by the probe agency. (PTI)
Former shelter home inmate raped
BETTIAH(BIHAR): A woman, who had been an inmate of the infamous Muzaffarpur shelter home, was allegedly raped by four men in a moving vehicle in Bettiah town of West Champaran district, the police said on Sunday. Bettiah town police station SHO Shashi Bhushan Thakur said that the woman was admitted to a government medical college on Saturday evening and a medical examination was conducted by a team of doctors on Sunday, he said. It will be confirmed whether she was raped only after getting the medical examination report, he said. The woman, in her police complaint lodged with the Bettah town police station on Saturday, alleged that four men forcibly took her inside their vehicle while she was passing through the area where she lives on Friday evening, and raped her in a moving vehicle, police said. The men then dumped the woman in her locality after raping her. All the four men had covered their faces with masks but she could remove the masks and identify them.While all the four persons belonged to the same family, two of them were brothers, she said. (PTI)