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Blast in Srinagar kills four army officers
by Billal Butt

     Srinagar: Wednesday morning's sucide bomb attack on an army vehicle carrying eight people, including four army soldiers at a cross section of the high-profile Munshi Bagh Police Station and Sonwar areas in Srinagar showed clear signs that the extremists were determined to carry out a Iraq-style attack, randomly targetting not only a school, but inocent women and children in the vicinity. Today's suicide attack is the third such in front or near a school and the fourth overall in the past two months, leading most to speculate on whether terrorist-related violence is picking up again in the Kashmir Valley after the winter lull. A car bomb of May 11 followed by a grenade attack outside Srinagar's venerable Tyndale Biscoe High School on May 12, a third blast on June 14 outside another school, barely 50 metres from a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Pulwama in which 14 people,including two students were killed and today's incident is a pointer to the style of attacks being carried out. March 2005 for which reliable data is so far available, saw 25 civilian fatalities, February, 20, and January, when no-one was speaking of high levels of terrorist violence, 40. Nine security force personnel and 62 terrorists were killed in March; 10 and 44, respectively, died in February, and 23 and 60 in January.

Mayapuri girl raped in moving car (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Police may have made many promises of providing security on Delhi roads, but the plight of girls doesn't seem to be ending. This morning, a 23-year-old girl was abducted and gang-raped in a moving car in Mayapuri, West Delhi. The victim was abducted by four men in their car 4:40 a.m. as she came out of her home with her friends. After being raped, the victim was dropped off at Saraswati Vihar at 6 a.m. There is suspicion that the rapists in this case are same who were involved in the rape case of a 19-year-old Manipuri girl at Dhaula Kuan recently. Out of those four accused in Dhaula Kuan case only one has been arrested, remaining are on run yet. Police have shown the victim sketches of the four suspects for confirmation. The victim has accepted that her rapists looked very similar to those sketches.

Amit Jogi behind cash-on-camera sting-operation (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told the Supreme Court that Amit Jogi, son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi, was behind the cash-on- camera sting operation which involved former Union Minister and Chhattisgarh leader, Dilip Singh Judeo. While submitting an affidavit against a petition the CBI said : " Around July 2003, Amit Jogi hatched a plan with Rajat Prasad, Arvind Vijaymohan and the petitioner to video record Dilip Singh Judeo, in the act of receiving the bribe." "Amit's motive behind the plan was to, derive the political mileage in favour of Ajit Jogi by disgracing the image of Judeo," the CBI said. CBI has claimed that Patel had accepted that the entire sting operation cost Rs.15 to 16 lakh to entrap Judeo Singh. Bhupinder Patel alias Rahul has filed a petition in Supreme Court for quashing the case registered against him. CBI has dismissed the claim of the petitioner that he acted to expose corruption in public life by saying that agency has completed "its field investigation and the results of the investigation is under scrutiny". Amit Jogi is already in CBI remand for his alleged involvement in the murder of the Nationalist Congress Party state-unit treasurer, Ram Avtar Jaggi. Judeo had been caught on a video CD tape accepting cash in a hotel room approximately two years ago. In the 35 minute duration CD, Judeo had been shown accepting money from a man called Rahul and saying,"Paisa Khuda to nahin par Khuda ki kasam Khuda se kam bhi nahin."

Child swapping in Ludhiana nursing home  (Go To Top)
by Karan Kapoor

     Ludhiana: A case of child-swapping in a private hospital of Ludhiana has come to light where a nurse allegedly swapped a newborn baby boy with a still-born girl child. Saroj rani, who was expecting, got herself admitted to a private nursing home, and delivered a baby boy. The attendent nurse allegedly took the child away for cleaning up the newborn. Later, the mother and her husband Pramod Kumar, were given a dead girl child and told that the mother delivered a still-born baby. "On the advice of a midwife I took my wife to a nearby clinic, where she gave birth to a child, but the midwife took the new born away from my wife saying that it was a still-born child," said Pramod Kumar. "We have lodged a report in the police station but they did nothing. I couldn't recognise any doctor in the clinic. We want our baby back," added Kumar. Saroj Rani, wife of Pramod Kumar, says, "On July 5th, we went to the clinic and I delivered a baby. But soon after the baby was born, she took it away from me. She gave me some medicine and I became unconscious. But I did hear the voice of the child, when I enquired her, she said that it was a still born child. I need my child back". Many believe that the desperate desire to have boys, are resulting in such incidents newborn baby boys are stolen and supplied to the couple willing to dole out a fortune. According to a report of World Health Organisation, sex-ratio in India continues to be unfavourable to females (933)females/1000 males, Census 2001). Discriminatory attitude towards a girl child leads to malnutrition and impaired physical, mental and emotional growth of a female child. Approximately 85 per cent of women want at least one son and 33 per cent wants more sons than daughters (NFHS-2). Each year in India, roughly 30 million women experience pregnancy and 27 million have a live birth (MoHFW, 2003c). Of these, an estimated 1,36,000 maternal deaths and one millionz; ten lakh newborn deaths occur each year. In addition, millions more women and newborns suffer pregnancy and birth-related ill health.

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