Curfew
in Haridwar after violence; one dead
Haridwar:
Violence continued in Haridwar even as authorities clamped
curfew after violent clashes between the police and local
traders left one dead and 20 injured on Wednesday. The violence
was triggered late on Tuesday night after a policeman allegedly
misbehaved with the wife of a local trader. The agitated
trading community took to the streets in protest and also
attacked two police pickets with stones and staffs. "Three
people are seriously injured and one of them, Sandeep Khanna
has died," Ghanshyam, a local trader, said. Police canecharged
the mob and also fired in the air leading to injuries. Area
Inspector General of Police, L.P Mishra made an appeal to
people to stay calm. "An inquiry is being done into this
whole incident. Those who are at fault will be punished.
I appeal to the businessmen to remain calm," Mishra said.
Millions of people have converged in Haridwar for the Ardh
Kumbh or half pitcher festival, one of the most important
for Hindus and many traders have set up temporary shops
in the ongoing fair.
Talks
on nuke CBMs on May 25-26 (Go
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New
Delhi: India and Pakistan will hold expert level talks
on bilateral nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs)
on May 25-26. India today formally conveyed to Pakistan
its acceptance of the dates proposed by Islamabad for talks
on nuclear CBMs as also for a meeting of the committees
of the two countries on drug trafficking and smuggling on
June 15-16, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said.
The decision to hold talks on these subjects was taken at
a meeting between the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries
in Islamabad on February 18.
Modi
Govt questions SC Best Bakery ruling (Go
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New
Delhi: The Supreme Court's ruling in the March 2002
Best Bakery case ordering its transfer and retrial in Maharashtra
was today questioned by the government of Chief Minister
Narender Modi. Opposing a National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) PIL that sought the transfer of 12 most sensitive
post-Godhra riot cases outside the state for trial, Gujarat's
Additional Solicitor General Mukul Rohtagi told a three-judge
apex court bench that an application seeking modification
in the Best Bakery judgment dated April 12 had already been
filed, and, unless the modification application of the state
government was heard and disposed of, the plea of transfer
of these sensitive cases had to be deferred.
Chief
Justice V N Khare and Mr.Justices S B Sinha and S H Kapadia
formed the bench that heard Wednesday morning's plea. Rohtagi
further submitted that in the two appeals that were disposed
of earlier by a two-judge bench comprising Mr. Justices
Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasayat, the issue of transfer
of trial outside the state was never prayed for nor argued,
and therefore, the bench was going outside the scope of
the appeals by ordering the transfer of the trial to Maharashtra.
The only question that was argued was whether or not the
Gujarat High Court should have permitted the state government
to adduce additional evidence for deciding the culpability
of the 21 accused in relation to the death of 14 people.
The state in its modification application had also sought
expunging of certain aspects of the judgment where it was
said ''the modern day Neros were looking elsewhere when
Best Bakery and innocent children and helpless women were
burning and were probably deliberating the perpetrators
of crime could be saved or protected.''
61
killed in Basra attacks
