Bihar ADM charged with‘sodomizing’ teen

Patna: A case has been lodged against a Bihar official for allegedly sodomizing a minor boy of a reform home in Purnea district and authorities have started investigating the case, officials said on Friday.

Rajeshwari Pandey, Additional District Magistrate, allegedly sodomized a 14-year-old boy staying in a reform home. Pandey has been untraceable and on the run since after the case was lodged against him, police said.

post-gaya, patna blasts Bihar will set up ATS

Patna: After serial bomb blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya, Bihar is set to have its own Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the State Government has appointed its first inspector general (IG), officials said Friday. “The much-awaited Bihar ATS will be a reality soon, as the State Government has finally initiated the move to set it up with the appointment of senior IPS (Indian Police Service) officer Paresh Saxena as IG of the ATS,” an official in the CM’s Office said.

CM Omar gives anxious moments to securitymen

Srinagar: With militants present in the area he was visiting, Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah gave some anxious moments to his security personnel when he decided to break the cordon thrown around him and mix with people in Tral area in Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Jyoti Basu’s statue vandalised in Howrah

Howrah:  A statue of former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu was found vandalised in Howrah district. locals in Salkia noticed this on Wedneday morning and as the news spread local CPI(M) leaders lodged a police complaint against unknown miscreants for damaging the statue. Another Communist leader Pulak Banerjee’s statue which also stood next to Basu’s was also vandalised.