Mamata cancels meet with PM
Trinamul supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her finance minister, Dr Amit Mitra, were heckled by the CPI(M) and its student wing, Students’ Federation of India, outside the Planning Commission on Tuesday. A group of nearly 150 protesters of CPI(M) and SFI targeted Ms Banerjee and her band of ministers when they arrived at Yojna Bhavan for the annual Plan discussion.
Following the attack, Ms Banerjee called off a meeting with the Prime Minister that was scheduled for Tuesday evening. Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra, who was pushed around, has been admitted to AIIMS. It was claimed that he had to be taken to AIIMS for treatment as the protesters manhandled him and “hit him on the chest”. Three other ministers, who also claimed to have sustained minor injuries, were released after first aid.
The Trinamul leaders claimed Ms Banerjee had to call off her meeting with the PM since she was “unwell and had received injuries on her shoulder following the attack”. They said Ms Banerjee was “under doctor’s observation”. Even though Ms Banerjee will be in New Delhi till Thursday, there is now little possibility of her meeting with PM since he leaves for Germany on Wednesday and returns only on Friday night.
CPI(M) leader Nilotpal Basu, claiming that his party was against violence, wanted to know “whether the protesters would have showered petals on her (Ms Banerjee)”.
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‘Surgical knife, golf club used in Arushi murder’
Ghaziabad, April 9: An official of the Gujarat Forensic Science Univ-ersity on Tuesday told the special CBI court hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case that the crime was possibly committed using a golf club and surgical knife, and that no outsider except the Talwar couple was involved in the murder.
While the injury on their heads was that of something like a golf club, the neck wounds were inflicted using a sharp-edged thing like a surgical knife, GFSU director Mohendra Singh Dahiya told the court. The injury marks indicated that their throats were slit after the murder, he added. “I don’t know who was attacked first, but they were certainly killed on Aarushi’s bed,” he said. — PTI
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