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May 26, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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NCB team
quizzes Biswas, son Left opposes move to send troops to Iraq SC stays notice for ouster of sarpanches |
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Books released No threat to Mayawati government |
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I-cards for Kashmiri Pandits likely
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team quizzes Biswas, son Kolkata, May 25 Mr N.C. Patra, NCB’s Assistant Director, who had interrogated Mr Biswas several times during past 48 hours, said they had found some concrete evidences and records relating to the involvement of Mr Biswas and his son in the racket. Mr Kumar again interrogated both father and the son yesterday. Mr Patra said they were now verifying certain facts and they might arrest both Mr Biswas and his son in connection with the inquiry.
NCB officials interrogated Mr Biswas and his son throughout the day. The officials also searched Mr Biswas’ bedroom and other places. They recovered some papers and documents, relating to the
transshipment of illicit drugs and heroin from China and Pakistan through their agents, operating from the ground floor of Mr Biswas’ house, rented out to them. Two large packets, containing illicit drugs and other contraband arrived at Kolkata airport last night addressed to Mr Biswas’ residence at CJ 22, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 91, from China, which NCB officials seized. Already five foreign nationals, including two Chinese and three from Myanmar, had been arrested in connection with the drug smuggling. Several officials of the Mizoram Government were also detained in connection with the case. A team of NCB officials also left for Paris and some other European countries to meet their counterpart for unearthing the international drug racket. SHILLONG: Gloria Remi, wife of San Ngian Thanga, the absconding tenant of Mr Biswas, has told the police that she was born in Myanmar, brought up in Mizoram and married in Bangalore. She was interrogated for the second time by the police for four-and-a-half hour on Saturday, a senior official of Madandriting police station told PTI on Sunday. The Customs Department here had found that Thanga was a Myanmarese and not a Mizo as he had claimed while giving his identity to Biswas. Besides, his Mizo birth certificate was also fake, Additional Commissioner of Customs G. Panmei had said yesterday. |
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Left opposes move to send troops to Iraq New Delhi, May 25 A joint statement signed by leaders of the four parties said there should be no involvement at the military level with the “occupation regime in Iraq”. “Sending troops to serve the needs of US occupation will be totally against all-party stand reflected in the statement adopted in the last session of Parliament. The statement (in Parliament) deplored US-British military action, called for the withdrawal of their military forces and for handing over the interim administration to the UN. There should be no involvement at the military level with occupation regime in Iraq,” it said. Mr Harkishen Singh
Surjeet, Mr A.B. Bardhan, Mr Debabrata Biswas and Abani Roy, leaders of the
CPM, the CPI, the Forward Bloc and the RSP, respectively, said in the statement that there was no UN-sponsored administration or peace-keeping force in the war-ravaged country and the USA would continue as the “occupying force” and, therefore, any troops sent there would have to work under US command. In the name of a “stabilisation force”, the USA wanted troops from allied countries to share the burden of pacifying Iraq and quell any opposition to its illegal occupation, the joint statement said. |
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SC stays notice for ouster of sarpanches New Delhi, May 25 The stay was granted by a Bench comprising Justice N. Santhosh Hegde and Justice Shivaraj V. Patil on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Section 175(1) of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, disqualifying a person for being elected as member of the local bodies if he or she had more than two living children. The Court sought reply from the state government while issuing notices to it on separate petitions by sarpanches of Kakrali and Nabipur villages of Faridabad and Karnal districts, respectively, and a member of Panchmandon in Sonepat district challenging the notices given by the Deputy Commissioners to them for ouster. The counsel for Brij Mohan and Bala Devi, sarpanches of Kakrali and Nabipur, respectively, and Virender Singh, a member of Panchmandon panchayat, contended that Section 175(1) of the Act was unconstitutional and void as the states had no power to enact such a law under the state as well as the concurrent lists of the Seventh schedule of the Constitution. Haryana had passed the Act in 1994. Besides, the provision was contrary to the Fundamental Rights guaranteed to a citizen under different Articles of the Constitution and contrary to the principle of natural justice, the petitioners said. The Deputy Commissioners of the districts concerned had issued notices to the three panchayat functionaries last month after receiving reports from the respective block development officers and Sub-Divisional Magistrates that they had violated the law as they had more than two living children when they
contested the election and therefore were not entitled to hold any post in the panchayats. A similar petition, filed by two sarpanches, Javed and Kalasho Devi, had already been admitted for hearing by the apex court last year. The three had contested panchayat poll successfully in March, 2000, but their election was challenged on the ground that they had violated the provisions of the Act. |
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Books released New Delhi, May 25 Mr Shekhawat also laid stress on the protection of environment saying that environment was intricately linked with society and anybody ignoring this fact would be doing a disservice to the society. He said all this was chronicled in the ancient Indian literature. The Vice-President made these observations while releasing the three books, “Good Governance and Ancient Sanskrit Literature”, “Human Resource Development and Ancient Sanskrit Literature” and “Environment and Ancient Sanskrit Literature”, written by Dr Aruna Goel, Member, University Grants Commission. Mr Shekhawat also stressed the importance of Sanskrit and called for making the language popular among common people. |
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No threat to Mayawati government Lucknow Mayawati, who was to fly to Washington tonight flew back to the state is capital to take stock of the situation. The Chief Minister, in a statement said there was no threat to her government. “I have enough numbers under my belt,” she said today. Leader of the BJP legislature party Lalji Tandon said: “Even after the withdrawal of the support by 14-member Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) from the BJP-BSP coalition government the Mayawati-led government continues firmly in saddle.” The confidence of BJP leader stems from the fact that the Mayawati-led BJP-BSP coalition government has “sufficient numbers” under its belt even if the RLD decides to quit the coalition government. In the 402-member Uttar Pradesh state Assembly actual strength is 401 as one seat of Chraigaon has fallen vacant following the death of a Samajwadi Party legislator. The break up of the ruling coalition, include: the BSP (110), BJP (86), Loktantrik Congress Party (2), Janata Dal (U) 1, Majhi Mjhwar Shoshit Samaja, Samata, Hindi Maha Sabha (1) each and independents 9. This brings the total to 211. On the other hand opposition strength is the Samajwadi Party (142), Congress (16), Rashtriya Kranti Party (4), CPM (2), SJP, NLP and the Janata Party one each and Independents 7. Total strength is 174. And if 14 RLD members are added to this the tally stands at 188 - still 14 short of the majority in the House. Position of two MLAs-Atiq Ahmad of the Apna Dal who is in jail and Akhilesh Singh, MLA from Rae Bareli, who is absconding is not clear. Meanwhile, reacting to the resignation of Ajit Singh, national president of Rashtriya Kranti party Kalyan Singh said the doors of his party were always open for the RLD. “Ajit Singh has no other option but to withdraw the support from this corrupt BJP-BSP government,” he said. He said after possible withdrawal of the support, the Mayawati-led government would be reduced to minority. “Chief Minister should prove her majority on the floor of the House”, he added. State president of Samajwadi Party Ram Saran Das said now the days of Mayawati-led government were numbered. |
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I-cards for Kashmiri Pandits likely New Delhi, May 25 “If the bona fides of the Kashmiri migrants are proved, they could be considered for registration in Jammu and the Government of Delhi could accordingly be intimated for the issue of identity cards,” the ministry said in a communique to the Kashmiri Samiti, a frontline organisation of the community. The letter asked the samiti president Sunil Shakdher to intimate certain details in respect of each of the families to the Home Ministry for verification through the Jammu and Kashmir Government. Mr Shakdher termed it as a “landmark” step towards establishing the identity of the displaced people. “Such a thing was urgently needed as the future identification of a large chunk of Pandits is dependent on it,” he said pointing out that if the revenue records in the Valley were somehow destroyed, Pandits would lose their claim of belonging to Kashmir.
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