Islamabad: Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was on Monday indicated by the Supreme Court for contempt of court over his refusal to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

A seven-member bench of the Supreme Court said that Gilani was given two years to act on its repeated orders to revive cases of alleged money laundering against Zardari in Switzerland but he failed to comply.

All the judges on the bench concurred with the charges and signed the chargesheet. 59-year-old Gilani, who was personally present in the court, was asked whether he understands the charge against him, to which Gilani said, “I have done no wrong.”

Gilani refused to accept the charges and maintained that President Zardari enjoy immunity. Importantly, the Prime Minister was asked to stand on the rostrum as the charges were read out against him.

With Gilani refusing to bow down, the stage is set for a protracted battle in the court. Gilani is the first Prime Minister of Pakistan to have been indicted for contempt of court.

The Prime Minister had, earlier too, appeared in the court when it took up the contempt case on January 19 and said the government could not reopen the cases against the President because he enjoys complete immunity in Pakistan and abroad.

NEW DELHI: The Working Committee of the BCCI is learnt to have unanimously rejected Sahara Group's primary demand of allowing their franchise Pune Warriors to field six foreign players for the next edition of Indian Premier League (IPL).

"The president apprised the Working Committee about Sahara's demands — one of the primary issue being allowed six foreign players for the next edition. The entire working committee was unanimous in its opinion that this demand is unacceptable and hence it was turned down," a senior BCCI official preferring anonymity, told PTI today.

Elaborating on the issue, the official said, "The demand was certainly illogical as members felt that it would aggrieve the eight other franchises. The members felt that in order to meet one aggrieved party's demand, you can't irk eight other stakeholders in the BCCI property." The

other issue was BCCI returning a part of the bank guarantee after the number of matches was reduced from 94 to 74. The parent body also found the proposal "unacceptable." However the other two demands were found to be "acceptable" by the members.

"Obviously, they are entitled to get Yuvraj Singh's replacement and there was never any doubt about it. Even the president has made it clear.

"Secondly, they wanted to have a strategic partner and BCCI saw no reason why they can't have one. But what the committee understood is that their demand of six foreign players is non-negotiable. The committee has also made its stand clear," the official further stated.

Miffed by the BCCI rejection of their demands, the Sahara Group accused the Board of leaking information about their meeting in Mumbai and sought to give their version of events. —  PTI

LUCKNOW: The Election Commission today transferred two District Magistrates, a Deputy Inspector General of Police and some other officers, officials said here.

District Magistrate of Rae Bareli, Lok Sabha constituency of Sonia Gandhi and which would go to poll on February 15, Amrita Soni has swapped places with DM Sitapur Ajay Kumar Shukla, they said.

DIG Meerut Prem Prakash would swap places with DIF Food and Drug Administration Hari Ram Shrama.

Deputy SP Jaunpur Hari Nath Sharma has been transferred out of the district on a non-election post and Deputy SP PAC Brajesh Kumar Srivastava has been posted in his place.

Additional DM CSM Nagar Munni Lal Pandey has also been transferred out of the district on non-election post and Additional Commissioner Devendra Dixit has been posted in his place.

Additional SP Gautam Buddha Nagar Rakesh Jolly has swapped places with ASP Barabanki Shriparna Ganguly.

Inspector of Rae Bareli Sadar Kotwali Sudhakar Singh, inspector of Amethi police station Anand Bajpai and station house officer of Mohanganj in CSM Nagar Anil Kumar Shahi have also been transferred to non-election post.

The reason for transfers in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly elections are being held, were not immediately known. — PTI

New Delhi: Just three days after the Supreme Court rejected his plea to reconcile his birth date in official records as May 10, 1951, Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh is all set to undertake a four-day visit to Britain from Monday, indicating that he may not quit his post.

The Indian Army's official spokesperson said in a release here Sunday that Gen. Singh will be in Britain till Feb 17 to interact with the senior British military and civilian leadership and discuss defence related bilateral relations between the two nations.