What to watch out forVerdict in Sohrabuddin Sheikh Gujarat encounter case today
A special CBI court in Mumbai court is expected to decide today whether Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati were killed in the fake encounters. Twenty-two people, mostly police officers, are accused in the cases. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Sheikh, a known gangster, was killed in 2005 after being abducted. Kausar Bi, who was also abducted along with Sheikh, was raped and murdered. Sheikh’s aide, Prajapati was killed a year later, after being shot by the Gujarat police. BJP President Amit Shah was named in the case but was later discharged. The Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria, former Gujarat police chief PC Pande and senior police officer Geeta Johri were also implicated and later discharged. The police has claimed that Sheikh was affiliated with terrorist outfits and was also involved in a conspiracy to assasinate Prime Minister Modi. Bank shut down starting today, confederation strikes against wage revisions.Several banks branches will remain shut from from Friday to Wednesday as a result of a strike called by the All India Bank Officers Confederation's. Over 3.2 lakh officers are likely to take part in the strike to protest opposing the union’s move to restrict salary settlements upto Scale III. "AIBOC believes that it is nothing but a farcical logic to restrict the wage negotiations up to the officers in scale III whereas the entire officer community is covered under unified Service Regulations," the confederation wrote in a statement. ATM services are only expected to be affected on December 26. Chinese Foreign Minister to meet with Sushma Swaraj today on first day of his four-day trip to India
Former Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha, who had recently walked out of the NDA fold, joined the Congress' mahagathbandhan in Delhi on Thursday. Meanwhile, former BJP ally Upendra Kushwaha joined the UPA, the BJP’s ties with the Lok Janshakti Party appeared to be in trouble with LJP leader Chirag Paswan asking the central government to explain what benefits demonetisation brought to the country. After Yogi Adityanath’s claims about Hanuman’s Hindu origins, BJP Legislator says the he was actually Muslim
With reports that farmer distress was the biggest factor that decided the outcome in Madhya Pradesh polls, a report on the voting pattern in the state suggests that voters in both the rural and urban pockets were driven more by better employment opportunities than agrarian distress while voting. Read more on why the BJP lost its stronghold in the recent Assembly Election, only on News18. On reel
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