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Crime
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Suspected
Terrorist Under Interrogation at Delhi Airport Suspected Terrorist Under Interrogation
at Delhi Airport (Go
to Top) NEW DELHI: The authorities at Delhi airport hauled up for questioning on Monday one passenger who arrived here from Dhaka in a Bangladesh Biman flight after an anonymous fax message received in the office of the Director-General for Civil Aviation claimed that the particular person was a terrorist. Intelligence officials have been interrogating him since the flight landed in Delhi, according to a TV channel report. He is suspected to be an ISI agent. Flourishing
Trade in Human Organs (Go
to Top) CHENNAI: Illegal trade in human organs is growing in India despite a ban introduced by the Government 10 years ago, according to a BBC report. Many poor people sell their kidneys for just 400 pounds. The people who volunteer to donate a kidney say they need money to pay off debts and buy food, the report said. Chennai has been nicknamed the "kidney district" of the country as the number of people involved in the trade is very high here. One woman told BBC that she earned two years worth of wages by selling her kidney. She sold it for 400 pounds for a man from Singapore who needed transplant. He is reported to have paid a hefty amount.for the organ but the money went to middlemen. The Government introduced the law to ban the trade in human organs a decade ago. However, the law simply drove the practice underground. Many people sell kidneys to foreigners. In Britain, two GPs have recently been found guilty of encouraging the trade in human organs, a doctor said. Four
BSF Jawans Killed in Polling Booth Blast (Go
to Top) SRINAGAR: Four BSF personnel were killed in an explosion set off by militants inside a polling station, in a village in Lolab constituency of Kupwara, which will go to polls on October 8. The explosion took place on Friday, October 4, 2002, evening when a BSF party went to occupy the school building, which was to be used as a polling booth, police said. Bomb
Scare at Supreme Court (Go
to Top) NEW DELHI: A bomb scare at the Supreme Court on Friday, October 4, 2002, prompted quick evacuation from the building. Bomb disposal squads of the Delhi police and the fire brigade personnel conducted a search operation.
The entire court complex which has dozens of chambers for judges, including the Chief Justice of India, and hundreds of lawyers, was evacuated. Several such bomb scare calls proved hoax in the past but officials said they do not want to take any chances. Security at all the Government buildings in the Capital has been tightened after Islamic guerrillas attacked Parliament on December 13, 2001. Attack
on Vaishno Devi-bound Bus: 2 killed, 22 injured (Go
to Top) JAMMU: Two people were killed and 22 injured as militants bombed a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to Vaishno Devi temple on Wednesday, October 2, 2002, a day after the bloodiest phase of the election in the state, Jammu and Kashmir A few hours after the assault, the twisted, smouldering wreckage of the vehicle still lay on the road, luggage scattered all around. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but a senior police official said Pakistan-based militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed could be behind the attack. Assam
Elephants on Anti-poaching Duty in Corbett
(Go
to Top) RAMNAGAR (Uttaranchal): Forest officials of world famous Jim Corbett park have brought three elephants from Assam to be used for patrolling to check poaching cases. The three female elephants will join 12 tuskers engaged in patrolling and riding tourists inside the tiger reserve. Authorities said patrolling was handicapped, especially during the off-season rainy monsoon period lasting from June 15 to November 15, after a couple of trained elephants died of diseases and old age. "Basically these elephants have been brought to be used in anti-poaching operations. During the monsoon the roads and checkposts are not accessible. Guards find it difficult to patrol dense forests during the period. In the green season they can be used for tourism," DS Khatti, Director, Jim Corbett National Park, said.
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