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JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE HELD FOR ALLEGED RAPE

CHENNAI: A judicial magistrate in south Tamil Nadu has been remanded in judicial custody till July 12 on charges of having had sexual relations with a woman police officer and reneging on the promise of marrying her. S Thangaraj, 31, was arrested and lodged in Coimbatore central jail for “rape and cheating.” The sub-inspector, with whom the magistrate was in a relationship, accused him of “breach of promise.”

Billionaire compounder held over DA charge

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau questioned a billionaire compounder, who is also an advisor in Indian nursing council, and his accomplice, on charges of amassing disproportionate assets. Mahesh Chand Sharma, 52, a compounder at Sawai Man Singh hospital, who bought a hospital in Jaipur for R22 crore three months ago, confessed to working on directions of Indian nursing council president T Dileep Kumar. Rains claim 4 lives in UP, rivers above danger mark

LUCKNOW: Incessant rains lashed various parts of Uttar Pradesh, with four people dying in incidents of building collapse, even as major rivers continued to flow above the danger mark. According to a report by the Central Water Commission, Ghaghra, Sharda, Quano, Rapti and Budhi Rapti rivers remained swollen. Five arrested for allegedly gangraping girl

NASHIK: Rural police arrested five men, including a minor for allegedly gangraping a girl and have been remanded to police custody till July 10. The girl was taken to a flat at Nashik’s Panchavati locality on Friday by one Kiran Patil on his motorcycle, where four of his reportedly inebriated friends raped her.

Congress, Trinamool to move SC over panchayat polls

KOLKATA: With the West Bengal panchayat polls slated during Ramadan, the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Congress will move the Supreme Court for an amending order to defer the elections as the Muslim holy month begins in the second week of July. TMC leader Sultan Ahmed said that the state government will support the move. Meanwhile, the Congress blamed TMC for the poll schedule during Ramadan. Bomb hoax delays Indigo flight to Indore

RAIPUR: A bomb hoax on a Kolkata-Indore Indigo flight at Swami Vivekananda Airport sent authorities into a tizzy. The flight was delayed by about three hours after a passenger claimed that a bomb had been kept in the aircraft. After all the Raipur-bound passengers alighted, a man who was going to Indore, told the crew that there was a bomb in a black bag kept on the aircraft.