After embarrassing chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa for allotting Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) sites to his kith and kin, Janata Dal (S) state president H.D. Kumaraswamy came out with yet another revelation on Saturday.

The main Opposition BJP on Saturday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of being involved in a “conspiracy of silence” over alleged corruption in the 2G spectrum allocation. The party also demanded arrest of former telecom minister A. Raja as well as the bureaucrats allegedly involved in the 2G scam.

The Congress on Saturday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement promising action against wrongdoers in the controversial 2G spectrum allocation. The party claimed that it was a high moral ground, which reminded of the UPA government’s decision to order a CBI inquiry into the issue.

Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran on Saturday denied any wrongdoing in 2G spectrum allocation and its pricing during his tenure as telecom minister in 2006 in the UPA-1.

A couple has been arrested by the economic offences wing (EOW) of the Delhi police for allegedly duping a Delhi-based doctor of `25 lakhs by promising admission for his son in a reputed medical college.

An undertrial on Saturday approached the Tis Hazari Court chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav, accusing the superintendent of Rohini Jail and certain other officials of torturing him at the behest of Romesh Sharma, an alleged frontman of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim.

The husband of a 32-year-old woman, who succumbed to severe burn injuries on Thursday and whose two minor children died in the fire at Ranhola in west Delhi on Thursday morning, has been arrested by the police for allegedly harassing her for dowry. The accused was arrested following complaints made by his father-in-law to the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM). The victim woman had allegedly set herself afire which led to her death as well as of her two children.

One person has been arrested by the southwest Delhi police for allegedly kidnapping and killing the six-year-old daughter of an airport employee after raping her on Tuesday. The incident was reported from Palam area in southwest Delhi.

Delhi police commissioner B.K. Gupta on Saturday asked his men to treat people with compassion when they approach them for help. He said they should treat them the same way, they would like their family members to be treated.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh under fire over delaying his sanction for former communications minister A. Raja’s prosecution, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi came out in strong support of Dr Singh on Friday, saying he did not think the PM was in an “embarrassing situation”.