The Chhattisgarh HC has issued notices to former cm Ajit Jogi and 12 others, including two sitting and 10 former MLAs, in connection with alleged defections of a dozen former BJP legislators to the Congress in 2001.
The case relates to resignation of 12 MLAs from the BJP in 2001 to form CVP when Mr Jogi was heading the Congress government in the state. Later, they joined the Congress after dissolving the one-day-old CVP. The then Opposition leader Nand Kumar Sai had demanded the then Speaker of the Assembly to disqualify them.
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Sc to hear cbi appeal on pandya’s killers
New Delhi, Jan. 4: The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the appeals filed by CBI and Gujarat government challenging the acquittal by the high court of 12 convicts in the murder of former home minister Haren Pandya.
A bench of justices P. Sathasivam and J. Chalameshwar will decide on the appeal filed by the investigating agency and the state police questioning the August 29, 2010, acquittal by the high court as being erroneous.
The HC had while acquitting the 12 convicts upheld the trial court’s decision to convict them for criminal conspiracy, attempt to murder and offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Pandya, a former minister of state for home in the BJP government, was shot dead IN 2003. — PTI
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CONGRESS JAIL bharo AGAINST bjp rule in mp
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BHOPAL, JAN. 4
The main Opposition Congress is in a belligerent mood and bent upon exposing the Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata party government on every front through a major show of strength that would get demonstrated by a “jail bharo” (courting of arrest) agitation on January 9.
On the instructions of AICC general secretary in-charge Madhya Pradesh Congress unit B.K. Hariprasad, the Congress legislators have fanned out in their respective constituencies to muster support for the January 9 agitation. Addressing the Congress MLAs here on Tuesday, Mr Hariprasad said that every Congress worker must go on the offensive.
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BHATT AGAIN DEMANDS ACCESS TO RIOT RECORDS
Ahmedabad, Jan. 4: Nearly a week after his request was rejected, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Thursday made a fresh plea to Nanavati Commission for a direction to get access to certain records relating to 2002 Gujarat riots.
Mr Bhatt, a deputy commissioner of Intelligence in-charge of internal security in 2002, claims that some of these documents would throw light on alleged complicity of chief minister Narendra Modi, his ministers and police officers in the riots.
Mr Bhatt dashed off a letter to the Nanavati Commission, which is probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, demanding that he be given access to certain records of post-riots period, to enable him file a comprehensive affidavit before the panel. — PTI