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Ex-MLA convicted in heroin case
NEW DELHI, April 11 (UNI) — A former MLA of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly has recently been convicted for possessing heroin by a designated CBI court and sent to jail. The court found Nasir Ali guilty and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for two years with a fine of Rs 5,000. CBI sources said the bureau had filed a case against him for possessing 19.5 kg heroin under Section 14 of the DD Act and Section 9 of the Opium Act.

SJP units dissolved
NEW DELHI, April 11 (PTI) — Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav today dissolved the party’s Bihar and West Bengal units with immediate effect on account of their “inactiveness”. The announcement was made by party General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav who said former Bihar legislator Radha Kant Yadav had been appointed the new President of the state unit.

Priya Rajvansh case
MUMBAI, April 11 (PTI) — Investigations into the alleged murder of actress Priya Rajvansh would be handed over to the CID, Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Mainkrao Thakre announced in the legislative council today. Replying to a notice vide Rule number 93 moved by Vynkappa Patki (JD-S) and others, Mr Thakre said the CID would also probe the failure of investigating officials to register a case of murder initially and the need for two post-mortems on the body.

  7 Congress men killed
HYDERABAD, April 11 (PTI) — Seven Congressmen were brutally murdered, allegedly by supporters of the ruling TDP, in a faction feud at Kantama Satram village in Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said. Armed assailants waylaid and stormed into a state transport corporation bus bound for Produttur in the district in which the Congress workers were travelling and killed them with bombs, knives and axes, the police said.Top


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