In a bizarre development, the Jammu and Kashmir police have booked the chairman and five other top officials of the State Board of School Education (Bose) besides the authors and publishers for allegedly seeking to portray the police as being “cruel” in a textbook for Class 1.
Simultaneously, special police parties have been fanned out to confiscate the controversial textbook from bookstalls and school stores.
The ‘Baharistan-e-Urdu’ has on it reportedly a picture of a man in police attire, holding a cane in his hand against Urdu alphabet zoye that here stands for zalim or cruel, tyrant or atrocious. Was it deliberate or unintentional gaffe, the police is investigating.
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Delhi hc blast: accused custody extended jan. 2
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec. 19
A Delhi court on Monday extended till January 2 the judicial custody of two Jammu and Kashmir residents accused in the September 7 Delhi high court blast case.
During the in-camera proceedings, Wasim Akram Malik and Amir Abbas Dev were produced before Special NIA judge H.S. Sharma on expiry of their judicial custody. After closing down on Saturday for winter vacation, the trial courts will reopen on January 2, 2012.
Court sources said the judge kept pending Malik’s plea for permission to visit Bangladesh, where he was studying Unani medicine before his arrest, to fill an examination form.