Fuel a pain point
Since February 2020, both petrol and diesel have become costlier by over Rs 15 per litre. Indian consumers did not get the benefit of falling international prices of oil last year, as Central and state taxes remain a pain point. These elevated taxes kept fuel prices up in India, even though crude oil prices had crashed and stayed low for much of 2020. SC Dhall Zirakpur
THE WOMAN, A PT INSTRUCTOR AT A SCHOOL HAD FIRST LODGED A COMPLAINT OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AGAINST SONEPAT MAN IN JUNE 2018
ROHTAK: Police on Sunday cracked down the murder case of a young woman weightlifter, who was found lying along a canal near Dhamar village here on Thursday, with the arrest of weightlifter coach Bhagat Singh, a resident of Sonepat, from Haridwar in Uttarakhand.
The woman had been working as a physical training instructor at a school in Bhopal and had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment against Bhagat at Urban police station in June 2018 besides filing another complaint of threat in Bhopal police station against the coach and his sister in September 2018.
DSP Sajjan Singh said they had arrested the coach from Haridwar in connection with the killing of a weightlifter, who had lodged complaints against him.
“The accused had appeared before a court in Bhopal on February 16 and he along with the woman came to Rohtak. Both were in regular contact, despite the woman having filed two complaints against him. The woman was a divorcee and had come in contact with Singh in 2016 when they met in a weightlifting tournament in Bhopal. She came to Rohtak later and used to practice weightlifting and had accused Singh, who was working at a sports complex in Rohtak, of sexual harassment,” the DSP added.
The DSP said they will produce the accused before court on Monday.
The incident came to light on Thursday, when Dhamar village sarpanch Wazir Singh got information that the body of a woman was lying along JLN canal near the village. The sarpanch and other villagers found that the woman’s throat was slit with some sharp-edged weapon.
A case was registered under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC at Rohtak (Sadar) police station.
KOLKATA: Hours after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned her nephew and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife and her sister for questioning in connection with the coal pilferage case, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that she is not intimidated by anyone adding that “a tiger cub is not scared of fighting cats and rats”.
“Muscle flexing or threats of jail sentence cannot scare us. We have stood before guns in the past. We won’t be scared of fighting rats. I will not surrender as
long as I am alive. You cannot break our spine. A tiger cub is not scared of cats and rats,” Banerjee said addressing an event to celebrate International Mother Language Day.
Earlier in the day, Abhishek Banerjee tweeted a photograph of the notice that CBI additional superintendent of police Umesh
Kumar left at his residence. Abhishek’s wife, Rujira, was not present at their residence when the five-member CBI team arrived around 2 pm. The agency has also summoned TMC MP’S sister-in-law, Menaka Gambhir in the case.
“At 2pm today, the CBI served a notice in the name of my wife. We have full faith in the law of the land. However, if they think they can use these ploys to intimidate us, they are mistaken. We are not the ones who would ever be cowed down,” he tweeted. CBI officials said they have plans to question Rujira Banerjee on Monday morning.
In a statement on the CBI action, the TMC said that people will give a befitting reply to the BJP during the polls. “So predictable. So desperate. All BJP allies have left them. So the only loyal allies are CBI and ED. CBI is the only ally of the BJP left,” the party said, adding that it was not scared and will fight it out. The agency has not yet made an official statement before the media.
“If anyone has committed any wrong, then the law will take its course. Those who are culprits should be punished. No one should try to politicise the matter,” BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.