Patna, June 22 (IANS) The political controversy surrounding the Bharat Tiwari encounter case in Bihar’s Bhojpur district intensified on Monday, with sharp reactions from Opposition as well as ruling party leaders, amid an ongoing judicial inquiry into the incident. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha raised serious questions over the encounter, claiming that such actions are often meant to suppress facts rather than reveal them.Speaking to IANS, Jha said, “I have seen the entire sequence…
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Patna, June 20 (IANS) Politics in Bihar has intensified over the Bharat Tiwari encounter case in Bhojpur, with the opposition mounting fresh attacks on the state government even as a judicial inquiry has been ordered into the incident. Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav questioned the functioning of the state government and urged Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary to visit the family of Bharat Tiwari and apologise.Tejashwi alleged that the Bihar government has failed to curb crime in the state…
Ranchi, May 14 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday delivered a significant ruling on a public interest litigation on custodial deaths and rape cases in the state, mandating that a judicial inquiry will now be compulsory in every such instance.A division bench of Chief Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar directed that any death or rape occurring in police custody or jail custody must be subjected to a judicial inquiry without exception.The court ruled that such inquiries are man…
Jaipur, Feb 16 (IANS) A judicial inquiry has been ordered after a devastating fire at a chemical and firecracker factory in the Khushkheda Industrial Area of Bhiwadi in Rajasthan’s Alwar district claimed seven lives on Monday, leaving the state in shock. The blaze, which broke out around 9.30 a.m. at plot number G1/118B, spread rapidly due to the presence of highly combustible chemicals and firecracker-making materials inside the unit. Nearly 20 to 25 workers were reportedly on duty when the f…