The agitating Gujjar leaders have sent a strong contingent of 60 community members to Jaipur for talks with the government. The group comprising 21 members from Pilukapura while 30 from other parts of the state was formed after the community decided to join the talks.
Gujjar leader K.S. Bainsla and spokesperson Roop Singh were still leading the community members occupying the rail tracks connecting Mumbai to Delhi and will join the talks if the third round proved fruitful. The delegation left Pilukapura on Sunday after noon for Jaipur after the Gujjars decided to have parleys with the government.
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Moily: CBI to relook at Aarushi case
Bengaluru, Jan. 2: In the wake of the “public sentiment” in the Aarushi Talwar murder case, the law ministry has asked the CBI to have a fresh look at the closure report in the teenager’s death probe, law minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.
“CBI is an independent and autonomous organisation. We cannot give directions to it. In the wake of public sentiment in the Aarushi murder case, we called for a meeting of the CBI officials and have asked them to have a relook at the closure report they have submitted on the matter,” he told reporters here.
The CBI had on December 29 filed a closure report in the case before a court.
—PTI
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Trader accused in land scam kills self in Kutch
Kutch, Jan. 2: A merchant, who was among the accused in a scam related to land allotment for rehabilitation of 2001 Bhuj earthquake affected people, allegedly committed suicide here on Sunday by consuming some poisonous substance, the police said.
Arvind Thakkar, trustee of the Bhuj Grain and Seeds Merchant Association, who was arrested in January 2010 and released on bail recently, consumed hair dye following which he was rushed to a private hospital, the police said.
Thakkar died while undergoing treatment, the police said, adding that his body has been sent for post-mortem. The police has not found any suicide note.
—PTI
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Drunk youth gouges out mother’s eye
Age correspondent
Raipur
Jan. 2: In a gruesome incident, a drunk youth in a village of Chhattisgarh on Sunday gouged out one eye of his mother for refusing to pay his beverage bill, the police said.
Balram Kunwar (26), a resident of Sishupal under Pendra block in Bilashpur district brutally attacked his mother Phul Bai (73) and dug out her left eye with a sharp weapon, following a tiff over paying his liquor bill. His father, however, escaped the attack as he fled. “Balaram removed his mother’s eye with a sharp weapon under the influence of alcohol when she refused him money to buy liquor,” investigating officer B.N. Nag said.