Bhopal Jan 30 PTI A large number of cows were found dead in a cowshed in Berasia town near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday following which district authorities registered an FIR against its management An official said the Sub Divisional Magistrate SDM of Berasia some 45 kilometres from the state capital got an FIR registered against the cowshed management on the directives of Bhopal district collector Avinash Lavania Lavania who visited the cowshed earlier in the day in a statement said its management has been removed and the Janpad Panchayats Chief Executive officer CEO was appointed as receiver adding that an autopsy had been ordered to know the cause of death of the bovines Lavania also ordered the Berasia SDM to take action against the cowshed director for collecting the carcasses at one place and not carrying out the last rites as per guidelines He asked the state Animal Husbandry Department to carry out a health check-up of all cows in such facilities across the district Meanwhile Congress Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh alleged a trade in cow bones and leather was going on in this cowshed which he claimed was run by a woman BJP leader Singh said over 500 cows had been found dead in this facility and sought a case of cow slaughter against its directors It should be investigated if the woman BJP leader was involved in the business of leather and bones The grant received by this cowshed should also be probed Singh said Queried on Singhs allegations state BJP spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi told PTI the former should rather speak about Congress workers who ate beef on the road in Kerala The BJP is committed to the protection of cows while Singh is only involved in playing politics on the issue The district administration has already initiated action against the cowshed management and further steps are being taken as per the law Chaturvedi added PTI ADU BNM BNM BNM

Kolkata Jan 19 PTI A TMC leader was attacked by unidentified persons in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday with the states ruling party pointing fingers at the BJP An officer of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate said three bike-borne miscreants opened fire on Asim Roy a TMC leader in Bhatpara area of the district The bullets however missed Roy following which the gunmen hit him with the butt of a revolver and left him bleeding on the ground the officer said A manhunt has been launched to nab the attackers he said Roy after being administered first aid at a local hospital told reporters that he was on way to the party office when the miscreants attacked him An influential BJP leader in the Barrackpore belt has hatched a conspiracy to eliminate me But he cant weaken the TMC or its activists he said BJP MP from Bhatpara Arjun Singh however claimed that the incident was a fallout of TMC infighting as its members are vying for control over the real estate market in the district The ruling party mercenaries run an extortion syndicate affecting small businessmen and common people The shootout is related to a fight over spoils Singh said Making light of Singhs assertions TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh alleged that the saffron camp scared by the popularity his party enjoys was carrying out such attacks We want the police to arrest the perpetrators at the earliest Ghosh added PTI SUS RMS RMS

Bhopal Nov 27 PTI Madhya Pradesh minister Bisahulal Singh has expressed regret over his women from upper castes should be pulled out of their homes to work in the society remark that has triggered a controversy The minister said confusion over his statement could be due to the mixed use of a local dialect and Hindi in his speech Objecting to his remark that was made during a function in Anuppur district on Wednesday Shree Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena on Friday staged a protest and set ablaze the ministers effigy near his official residence here Clarifying his stand on the remark the minister issued a statement saying that there was no intention to hurt Rajputs or any other section of the society in his address at a function to honour women and claimed that some of his sentences were misinterpreted Those having the recording of my speech can agree with me if they listen to my speech carefully he said Singh said that he generally talks to the people of his constituency in a mixed language including Hindi and local dialect Similar language was used by him in this address as well he said Such an unpleasant situation may have arisen due to mixed language not pure Hindi Everyone knows that I represent the tribal class and I was talking to the women of this section about their upliftment he said The minister said that if the skilled and educated women of the upper class dont come forward to work then whom the women of backward society will follow and draw inspiration from There was no other intention and if my statement hurt the sentiments of Rajputs or any other section I express regret he added Addressing a function organised to felicitate women in Anuppur district the minister had said Big people like upper caste Thakur Thakar and some other big people keep their women confined to homes and dont let them go out while women of lower strata of society in our villages work in the field and also do household chores Pull out the women of big people - Thakur from their homes Will this not make them march ahead the tribal leader had said Krishna Bundela Bhopal district president of Shree Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena had on Friday said the ministers objectionable remark has hurt the Rajput community Our MP organising secretary Shailendra Singh Jhala has directed us to blacken Singhs face whenever we see him he said Nearly 300 Karni Sena activists reached Singhs residence but they were stopped by the police some distance away from the ministers place he said PTI ADU NP NP

Mumbai Nov 26 PTI Dismissed police official Sachin Waze on Friday told an inquiry commission here that IPS officer Param Bir Singh had advised him not to indulge in the illegal activity of collecting money for anyoneSingh who surfaced in public after six months on Thursday is himself likely to appear before the Justice K U Chandiwal commission on MondayThe one-member commission is conducting inquiry into Singhs allegations that Anil Deshmukh then Maharashtra home minister had asked police officers including Waze to collect Rs 100 crore from bars and restaurants in MumbaiOn Friday Waze was cross-examined by Deshmukhs lawyer Anita CastellinoCiting Wazes affidavit before the commission the lawyer asked had Singh then Mumbai police commissioner ever advised him not to fall prey to any pressure and indulge in the illegal activity of collecting money for anyoneWaze replied that the IPS official had advised him soAsked whether he followed the advice Waze said I had already succumbed He described himself as an upright officer who was forced to go against law under certain unfortunate circumstancesMeanwhile Singhs lawyer on Friday told the commission that the IPS officer wont be able to appear during the day as he was visiting Thane in connection with a case against himThe day before the commission had warned that if Singh did not remain present he would face the execution of the bailable warrant issued against himSingh was ready to appear on Saturday or any other day the lawyer saidThe commission said it doesnt sit on Saturday and Singh can appear on Monday November 29 to which the lawyer agreedSingh was transferred from the post of Mumbai police commissioner in March in the aftermath of the Antilia bomb scare episode following which he leveled allegations against Deshmukh in a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav ThackerayThe IPS officer appeared before the Mumbai crime branch on Thursday to record his statementMeanwhile a man claiming to be a social worker on Friday approached the Justice Chandiwal commission with an intervention application seeking inquiry against Singh for his misdeeds during his tenure as Thane police commissionerSingh implicated many builders businessmen and common citizens in false cases the plea allegedThe commission took the application on recordIncidentally Singh appeared before Thane police on Friday in connection with an extortion case filed against him and some other police officials on the complaint of a local builderThe IPS officer is facing at least five extortion cases in MaharashtraThe Supreme Court has granted him temporary protection from arrest PTI AVI NP KRK KRK KRK

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Thursday hit out at Param Bir Singh saying the former Mumbai police commissioner finally made an appearance after being declared an absconder by a court The IPS officer who is facing several extortion cases landed in Mumbai on Thursday after remaining incommunicado for the past several months Singhs appearance in Mumbai today proved that it was necessary that he be declared an absconderHe hasnt reported for duty after he was transferred from the post of Mumbai police commissioner Singh moved the Supreme Court to get protection from arrest Nobody will believe his contention in the apex court that he faces threat to his life Malik told reporters He alleged that Singh levelled false allegations against former home minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in a politically-motivated case Malik said Deshmukh will fight the case in courts and prove his innocence On Wednesday Singh had told new channels that he was in Chandigarh and that he would soon visit Mumbai Last week a magistrates court here had declared Singh a proclaimed offender in an extortion case registered against him and some other police officers in the city Singh currently posted as Director General of Home Guards had attended his office last in May after which he went on leave The state police had told the Bombay High Court in October that his whereabouts were not known After his transfer from the post of Mumbai police commissioner he had levelled allegations of corruption against Deshmukh Singh was transferred after Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze was arrested in the case of an SUV with explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis house Antilia and the subsequent suspicious death of businessman Mansukh Hiran PTI MR NP NP

New Delhi Nov 23 PTI India and Russia are likely to seal the long-pending AK 203 Kalashnikov rifles deal under the Make in India initiative during Russian President Vladimir Putins visit here next month for summit talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi people familiar with the development said on TuesdayA meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council DAC chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh deliberated on key aspects of the joint venture and is learnt to have cleared the hurdles for its finalisation they saidUnder the nearly Rs 5000 crore deal the Indo-Russian joint venture will produce over six lakh AK 203 rifles over a period of 10 years at a manufacturing facility in Amethi in Uttar PradeshThe contentious issues that have been sorted out now included the cost component the sources saidBoth sides had given in-principle approval for the deal Singhs visit to Moscow last yearThe joint venture is also expected to explore the possibility of exporting the AK 203 Kalashnikov riflesPutin is likely to visit India on December 6 for the summit with ModiThe two sides are also looking at holding the inaugural 22 defence and foreign ministerial dialogue around the time of the summitExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Singh are scheduled to hold the dialogue with their Russian counterparts Sergey Lavrov and Sergey ShoyguThe Modi-Putin summit is expected to produce specific outcomes in further expanding ties in areas of defence trade and energyIt is learnt that the two sides are going to firm up a number of agreements in the areas of defence trade and investment and science and technology at the summitA framework for military-technical cooperation is set to be renewed for the next decade at the summit besides announcing a joint commission on technology and scienceIndia and Russia have also reached the final phase of negotiation for a logistics support agreement and it is likely to be signed either during the two-plus-two talks or at the summitThe pact will allow militaries of the two countries to use each others bases for repair and replenishment of supplies besides facilitating scaling up of overall defence cooperationThe summit was postponed last year because of the COVID-19 pandemicBoth the countries have a mechanism under which Indias prime minister and the Russian president hold a summit meeting annually to review the entire gamut of tiesSo far 20 Annual Summit meetings have taken place alternatively in India and Russia PTI MPB ZMN

New Delhi Nov 19 PTI A Delhi court has dismissed a plea seeking a declaration of a man who went missing during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as dead and issuance of his death certificate citing lack of cogent proof and contradictionsAn 80-year-old man had moved the court claiming that his son Ajit Singh came to Kashmere Gate in Delhi in the last week of October 1984 to purchase the motor parts but went missing after the anti-Sikh riots erupted in the first week of November Mian Singh a resident of Jammu and Kashmir filed a civil suit seeking a declaration of his missing son as dead and a direction to North Delhi Municipal Corporations Registrar of Births and Deaths to issue a death certificate Dismissing the suit Civil Judge Helly Fur Kaur noted that there is nothing on record to show that Ajit Singh visited Delhi in the last week of October 1984 Despite being put a query by the Court during final arguments plaintiff did not bring on record any ID proof of Ajit Singh nor any kind of document which could reasonably satisfy the court about his identity and existence the civil judge noted in an order dated November 18Further the judge said that the documents relied upon by Mian Singh consisted of a partly legible copy of the certificate issued by Prabandhak Committee Gurudwara Guru Nanak Satsang a copy of a letter to the Prime Minister for rehabilitation writ petitions correspondence between Delhi Commission of Police and SDM JK The judge noted that no missing report is available since the police refused to register the same and the one lodged with Delhi Administration got misplaced by Mian Singh I have gone through these documents meticulously However no cogent proof is found that substantially and satisfactorily supports the claim of the plaintiff since all the documents are merely based on representations of the plaintiff In fact it has come to pass that there are some contradictions between the plaint and documents she said The civil judge noted that in a writ petition Mian Singh had mentioned that his son went missing in the last week of November as against averment in the plaint that he went missing in the last week of October Furthermore the judge said that in the plaint before the court Ajit has been shown as the eldest son of Mian Singh while in the letter to the Prime Minister he has been mentioned as a younger son As per Mian Singh in 1979 he went to Nepal along with his family to earn his livelihood where he started a business of motor parts trading and his son Ajit Singh worked as a contractor for the supply of auto spare parts It is thus Singhs case that his son came to India to purchase the motor parts in the last week of October but went missing during the anti-Sikh riots and till date his whereabouts are not known the court noted The riots had broken out after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31 1984 PTI AAK RKS RKS

Noida Oct 26 PTI A lawyer was shot dead allegedly by an unidentified assailant in Uttar Pradeshs Noida police officials said on Tuesday and suspected a familial property rivalry as trigger for the killingThe incident took place on Monday night when the lawyer who has been identified as Ilahabas village resident Nishant Singh aged around 30 years was returning home the officials saidDeputy Commissioner of Police Central Noida Harish Chander said the local Phase 2 police station officials were alerted that the lawyer was admitted to a hospital with gun shot woundsAs it has emerged during initial probe he died of gun shot injuries Chander saidHe said the police have contacted the deceaseds family and visited the incident site for investigationIt emerged during initial probe that Nishant had a property-related dispute with some relatives since a long time His sister also had a dispute with her in-laws These two angles are being probed in detail the DCP saidThe police later said Singhs cousin Sandeep has been identified as a possible suspect behind the killing noting that the families of both had a long-standing rivalry related to a propertyThere have been conflicts between the two sides in the past also but then preventive measures were taken by the police it saidNishant and Sandeeps fathers are brothers but their families do not live together a police official saidMeanwhile the police said an FIR has been lodged and four teams have been formed to track down and arrest Sandeep who is absconding A reward of Rs 25000 has also been announced on his arrest the police added PTI KIS ZMN

New Delhi Oct 18 PTI A 55-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing valuables from an elderly woman police said on Monday Gurmeet Singh the accused had given the woman a cold drink laced with sedatives they said Singh and the woman who was in an unconscious state hired an auto-rickshaw to go towards Model Town on Sunday On finding Singhs activities suspicious the auto-rickshaw driver stopped his vehicle outside Azadpur metro station where the police were present Deputy Commissioner of Police northwest Usha Rangnani said Singh tried to run away but the driver alerted the police and they nabbed him The woman was in an unconscious state and admitted to the hospital for treatment the DCP said Singh was previously found involved in similar kinds of cases the police said During interrogation Singh disclosed that he intoxicated victims by offering them cold drinks mixed with Alprax tablets in order to steal their valuables the DCP said Two gold bangles one gold ring and one purse containing a mobile phone and Rs 1160 cash were recovered from his possession she said The police said they are going to reward the auto-rickshaw driver for his alertness PTI NIT SNE

New Delhi Sep 29 PTI Soon after former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh met Home Minister Amit Shah the Congress hit out at the BJP leader alleging his residence has become the new centre of anti-Dalit politics Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala alleged that the arrogance of those sitting in power has been hurt ever since a Dalit has been made the chief minister of Punjab The arrogance of the those sitting in power has been hurt Because if a Dalit is made the chief minister they ask who is taking the decisions in the Congress he asked His remark came after Kapil Sibal a leader of the G-23 dissident group said there is no elected president in the party and wondered who was making the decisions The centre of anti-Dalit politics is nowhere else but Amit Shahs residence Surjewala alleged though he did not mention the Shah-Amarinder Singh meeting Amit Shah ji and Modi ji are burning in the fire of vengeance from Punjab They want to take revenge on Punjab as they have so far failed to serve the interests of their capitalist friends with the black anti-farmer laws BJPs anti-farmer conspiracy will not succeed he said in a tweet in Hindi using the hashtag NoFarmersNoFood The Congress had hand-picked Charanjit Singh Channi a member of the scheduled caste community as the chief minister of Punjab after Amarinder Singh resigned from the post alleging that he has been humiliated following an open revolt by the faction led by Navjot Singh Sidhu After meeting Shah Amarinder Singh said he discussed the prolonged farmers stir with him However the politically significant meeting raised speculation over Singhs future plans ahead of the polls in Punjab with some political analysts viewing it as an indication that he may be seeking the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP PTI SKC RT