ACCUSED TAKEN TO RED FORT TO RECREATE SCENE

NEW DELHI: Actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu and Iqbal Singh, both arrested in connection with the January 26 Red Fort violence, were on Saturday taken to the 17th century monument by the Delhi Police’s special investigation team (SIT) to recreate the sequence of events leading to vandalism and clashes that erupted there during a tractor rally by farmers protesting against three new agricultural laws.

The two were arrested between Monday and Tuesday from near Karnal Bypass in Haryana and Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, respectively. They are presently in the custody of the SIT of the crime branch, which is probing their alleged role in the Red Fort violence on Republic Day. Police have alleged that the two were “prominent players” behind the violence.

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who is in charge of five Lok Sabha constituencies in

West Bengal, says the Trinamool Congress’s electoral ship is about to sink. In an interview with Hindustan Times, he also accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s government of corruption, and said “Jai Shri Ram” has become Bengal’s election slogan. “People in Bengal are fed up with the TMC government; they are unhappy with corruption, the red tape and politics of vendetta,” he said.

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