Schools receive emails warning bomb blast, declared ‘hoax’
New Delhi, Nov 20: Multiple schools in the national capital received emails warning of bomb blasts on Thursday morning, which were later declared a ‘hoax’, an official said. The schools include the British School and Sanskriti School, the Modern School, Doon Public School, and Mother’s International School, a senior police officer said. The email sent to multiple schools read, “I am writing to you with an extremely serious and urgent warning. Your building is booby-trapped with several very powerful bombs that can detonate at any moment. These bombs have enormous destructive power and are likely to explode very soon, taking the lives of hundreds of innocent children and many teachers.” The officer informed that after a search operation, the bomb threat was declared a ‘hoax’. (PTI)
ED files chargesheet against Robert Vadra
New Delhi, Nov 20: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday filed a chargesheet against businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a money laundering case linked to fugitive UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari, officials said. The supplementary prosecution complaint has been filed before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court here, they said. The case has been listed for cognisance proceedings on December 6, the officials said. This is the second money laundering chargesheet against Vadra. In July, he was chargesheeted by the ED in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in Haryana’s Shikohpur. (PTI)
Thrashed over language row in train, student dies by suicide
Thane, Nov 20: A 19-year-old student committed suicide in Maharashtra’s Thane district after a group of people allegedly assaulted him on a local train following an argument over not speaking in Marathi, police said on Thursday. Arnav Laxman Khaire, a first-year science student, hanged himself at his apartment in Kalyan East on Tuesday evening, an official said. “Arnav was travelling to his college in Mulund on a local train on Tuesday morning when the assault took place between Kalyan and Thane stations,” a police official said. He said the teen’s father has alleged that Arnav asked a passenger to move a little ahead in a crowded compartment, when the latter reprimanded him for not speaking in Marathi, and the matter escalated. “The passenger, along with his five companions, then brutally assaulted Arnav, raining punches on him. Overwhelmed by fear and nauseous from the beating, Arnav alighted at Thane station and took the next train to Mulund,” the official said. Without attending all lectures at college, Arnav returned home early. “Arnav informed his father about the incident on his mobile phone, and the father sensed fear and tension in his voice. On returning home from work later that evening, he found the door closed. He broke down the door with the help of neighbours, and found his son hanging with a blanket around his neck,” the official said. (PTI)
