Patna , April 2: In a gruesome crime in Bihar, a teenaged girl was allegedly gangraped inside a running train and then thrown off to die bleeding near the tracks after her throat was slit on Friday morning.
The shocking incident also exposes the utter lack of security inside trains in Bihar and the shocking apathy of the state police force.
Policemen from three different police stations were found squabbling for over three hours to determine jurisdiction of the site in Samastipur district where the girl’s body was found by villagers living close to the railway tracks at around 7 am. The girl, believed to be around 16, was found lying in a pool of blood, her clothes torn off, near the Mukhtapur railway station.
Anand S.T. Das
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A-G quits in Pak as row over Zardari cases grows
Age Correspondent
Islamabad
April 2: Pakistan’s attorney-general, the country’s top legal official, resigned on Friday amid considerable pressure to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
“Anwar Mansoor Khan has resigned as attorney-general,” a government official said.
On Thursday, Anwar Mansoor Khan had stunned everybody when he blamed law minister Babar Awan for snags behind attempts to complete the legal procedures for sending letters to the Swiss authorities to reopen several old cases involving Mr Zardari.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court earlier this week directed the government to immediately reopen the cases against Mr Zardari and several others.
Last year it had struck down a controversial amnesty that had been protecting Mr Zardari and scores of other senior officials from prosecution over allegations of corruption dating back to the 1990s.
The attorney-general had said the government was obstructing implementation of the Supreme Court’s orders. A report has to be filed before the court on April 5.