The Mumbai police on Wednesday recovered the decapitated body of model and small-time actress Meenakshi Thapa, who was murdered last month in Allahabad.
The dismembered body was recovered from a septic tank in the Darbhanga Colony area. Meenakshi Thapa, 26, a Nepalese national and resident of Dehra Dun, was kidnapped and later murdered, allegedly by junior film artistes Amit Kumar Jaiswal and Preeti Sarin.
Amit Jaiswal and Preeti Sarin had been arrested in Mumbai on Saturday. According to IG B.P. Singh, Meenakshi found work as a junior artiste in director Madhur Bhandarkar’s movie Heroine and moved to Mumbai where she befriended Amit and Preeti. The two allegedly took Meenakshi to Gorakh-pur on March 12 on the pretext of getting her another acting assignment. When they realised that her family could not afford to pay the ransom, they allegedly murdered her.
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After 24 yrs, suu Kyi to go abroad
Rangoon: Nobel peace laureate and newly-elected legislator Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Burma for the first time in 24 years after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain in June, her party said on Wednesday.
Her travel caps months of dramatic change in Burma, including a historic byelection on April 1 that won her a seat in a year-old Parliament.
— Reuters
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Mamata in time influential list
New York: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been named among the 100 most influential people in the world by the prestigious Time magazine in its 2012 list which also includes United States President Barack Obama, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, billionaire investor Warren Buffet and singers Rihanna and Adele. — PTI