Cop suspended, Arrested MLAs freed on bail
The three-day Maharashtra legislature logjam ended on Monday after state home minister R.R. Patil announced suspension of PSI Sachin Suryavanshi, allegedly beaten up by MLAs in the Vidhan Bhavan last week. Ironically, the metropolitan magistrate’s court granted bail to both MLAs — Ram Kadam and Kshitij Thakur — on a surety bond of `15,000 each on Monday. The duo has also been told to appear before the crime branch every Wednesday.
Home minister R.R. Patil made the announcement in the Assembly after three days of continuous disruptions by MLAs across party lines seeking the policeman’s suspension. The MLAs demanded Suryavanshi be suspended for the whole of last week after the MLAs who beat him in the House were arrested. Mr Patil said Suryavanshi was being suspended till the completion of the departmental inquiry against him as “prima facie” his conduct was “unbecoming” of a police officer.
Mr Patil said he had viewed the CCTV footage of the Bandra-Worli Sealink fracas and found the language used by the policeman with the MLA was indecent and inappropriate. The government also announced a probe into the beating up of Suryavanshi in the Assembly after he had gone there over a breach of privilege motion moved against him.
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Interest rates cut on PPF,small savings
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, March 25
The government on Monday lowered interest earned on many post office savings schemes and Public Provident Fund by 0.10 per cent, affecting lakhs of small savers. The small savings interest rates were cut while consumer price inflation is still high at 10.91 per cent in February, thus diminishing real returns.
Interest on PPF has been lowered from 8.8 per cent to 8.7 per cent with effect from April 1, 2013.
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