Former MlA Rai Singh Baba dies
Gwalior: Former MlA from Mehgaon and senior Congress leader Rai Singh Baba died after long illness at Gurgaon-based Medanta hospital on Tuesday. He was 82 years old. His last rites were performed at his home town Maden district Bhind. He was suffering from heart disease and was admitted in Medanta hospital, Gurgaon. He was first elected from Swantantra party in 1967 after that he fought election on Congress ticket in 1980 and became MlA. This time also preparations being made to provide him ticket from Congress from Mehgaon (Bhind).
Arrest warrant against BJP leader issued
Gwalior: In a blow to the ruling BJP, a local court here issued arrest warrant against Narendra Singh Kushawah, in a case related to booth capturing of Nagar Panchayat election few year ago. A case under dacoit act has been registered against Kushawah. Kushawah is an important claimant of Assembly ticket in Bhind. The Special Judge of Bhind OP Sunaria issued the arrest warrant against Kushawah and also raised question on working style of police. There were half a dozen accused including Kushawah relating to booth capturing in the election of Akoda Nagar Panchayat. In this case, the judge found Kushawah was not present during the hearing of the case. The police informed that Kushawah had obtained an advance bail from the High Court but they could not give a copy of high court orders regarding the bail. At this, the judge told the police to implement the arrest warrant of Kushawah. Kushawah would have to take bail from Gwalior high court before election.
Five miscreants arrested with weapons
Gwalior: District police have arrested half a dozen armed miscreants who had come to commit dacoity at the house of a cloth merchant. Two miscreants managed to abscond when the police started searching for them. Sources said some armed miscreants were roaming around Hazrat Kothi under Gwalior police station. Acting on the information the CSP Gwalior raided the spot and surrounded the miscreants. The Gwalior police station in charge Sanjay Mishra said that arrested miscreants included Suresh, son of Ratan Shrivastava; Ravi, son of Ramji; lal Agarwal, son of Munna lal Rajak; Raju, son of Rampal; Dheeraj, son of Banvari. The police recovered two revolvers of 315 bore, 3 live rounds, two swords, two iron rods and one knife. The police said that two miscreants have fled and they are being searched.