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Setback for AAP, 2 MLAs arrested in Delhi

In a double whammy for AAP, two MLAs of Delhi’s ruling party were on Sunday arrested -- one for allegedly trying to mow a woman down and another in a sacrilege incident in Punjab -- taking to 11 the number of its legislators held by police in different cases.


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 The Arvind Kejriwal-headed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has 67 legislators  in the 70-member Delhi Assembly after it swept to power in February  2015. 
 Amanatullah Khan was arrested by Delhi police after a woman alleged  he tried to mow her down after she visited his residence to raise the  issue of power cuts while a Punjab Police team tonight arrested Naresh  Yadav, who has been booked in connection with the alleged Malerkotla  sacrilege incident on June 24. Both the arrests were made in Delhi. 
 Khan, also the chairman of the Delhi Waqf board, was first detained  for questioning and then arrested, a day after he alleged at a press  conference the woman was “pressurised” by police into giving a false  statement against him. 
“On July 22, the woman had recorded her statement before the  magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC. She had alleged while she was  returning from the legislator’s residence
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Life convict in Aguada jail wins torture case

High Court of Bombay at Goa in the last week awarded compensation of Rs 25,000 to one Rajendra Singh, an inmate serving life imprisonment at Central Jail Aguada, for the pain and suffering apart from the torture at the hands of jail authorities for no justifiable reason back in October 2012.

The Goan Network
Published Jul 25, 2016, 5:03 AM IST
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HC orders State to pay ` 25,000 compensation to inmatethe goan I networkPANAJI  Justice F M Reis and Justice Nutan Sardessai partly allowed a criminal writ petition and directed the State to pay the compensation with the liberty to recover from the delinquent official after fixing the responsibility on him.   From the material on record, the HC observed that the petitioner was subjected to assault while in custody which is a clear reflection of violation of…

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