HC sets aside CBI court’s order discharging Marans

The Madras high court on Wednesday set aside a lower court order discharging all the accused, including the Maran brothers, in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case. Allowing the appeal filed by the CBI, Justice G Jaichandran directed a special CBI court to frame charges and conclude the trial within 12 months from the date of receipt of copy of the order. The special CBI court had in March discharged Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others accused in the case. The trial court had allowed the petitions filed by the Maran brothers and others seeking their discharge, holding there was no prima facie case against them.

Pakistanis voted on Wednesday in a tense election to choose a new government as at least 35 people were killed in an ISIS suicide attack and poll-related violence, amid charges of manipulation by the powerful Army and concerns over the participation of Islamic hardliners.

Hours after polling began for the general elections, an Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polling station in Bhosa Mandi area of Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, killing 31 people, including policemen.

In separate incidents, four persons were killed in poll-related violence.

Clashes erupted between rival parties outside several polling

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