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New Delhi: One more person has been arrested by the Kashmir police in connection with the ShujaatBukhari murder case. The arrested person has been identified as MajeedZargar, who is a resident of Bandipora.

Sources say,“They are ascertaining his role in the murder. We picked him up on the basis of the leads, we have got.”  The police also said that the questioning of ZubairQadri is ongoing, but add that no direct link with the case has been found as yet.

The police, however, say that it is more or less confirmed that the main accused in the case is NavedJutt of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Jutt is also closely associated with the HizbulMujahideen and was ordered to kill Bukhari by the ISI. The ISI wanted to send out a message to all Kashmir journalists that they would meet with Bukhari's fate, if they failed to toe the line.

New Delhi: A bench of Jabalpur high court has asked all former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh who have been occupying government accommodation for life to vacate them within one month. They included former chief ministers Kailash Joshi, Uma Bharti, Babulal Gaur and Digvijaya Singh.

Of the four, Uma Bharti is a minister in the Union government, Babulal Gaur is an MLA and Digvijaya Singh is a RajyaSabha MP. Kailash Joshi is the only person who does not hold any office.

The order was given on Tuesday by Chief Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice A K Shrivastava on a petition filed by a law student RaunaqYadav challenging the April 24, 2017 order of the state government that allowed all ex-CMs of the state to retain government accommodation for life and enjoy perks similar to that of a cabinet minister.

New Delhi: In Trump administration’s continuing zero-tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration that has led to the separation of families and, most controversially, removal of children from their parents with as many as 52 men from India being held in US federal prisons.

The Indians, who were mostly Punjabi and Hindi speakers, are being held in a federal detention center in Oregon, Washington state, where they were transferred as part of a larger group of 123 people held allegedly for crossing into the US illegally along the border with Mexico weeks ago.

According to a local news daily The Oregonian, some of the Indians identified themselves as Sikhs and Christians who claimed they were fleeing persecution by Hindu majority in India. It could not be immediately confirmed if they had been separated from their families.

New Delhi: Officials familiar with the development informed that Justice JK Jain commission has given a clean chit to police and CRPF personnel allegedly involved in firing at agitating farmers in Mandsaur last year.

Five people were killed in police firing on June 6, 2017, at the peak of the farmers’ agitation in Madhya Pradesh. Another protester also died in a police lathi-charge at Daloda, located about 20 km away.

The report, which was delayed by nine months, stated that police firing had become necessary for the purposes of self-preservation and mob dispersal during the violent farmer agitation. It did not place any blame on then collector Swatantra Kumar Singh or superintendent of police OP Tripathi either, only noting that the information network of the police and state administration was “very weak”. None of the farmers’ demands – loan waiver or higher price for agricultural produce – could be met at the district level, the commission reasoned.