Over 250 people were booked under various sections of the IPC and a case of attempt to murder was slapped after workers at a garment factory here turned violent and resorted to arson and rioting, leaving a few workers injured.
Farmer Harmeet Singh of Mansuran village near here took the extreme step on Wednesday evening after he failed to return the loan taken from an 'arhtiya' or private financier, the family said.
Already in the line of opposition's fire over the Lalit Modi issue, the ruling BJP on Thursday was further driven to a corner over remarks of party senior L.K. Advani that he did not rule out another Emergency-like situation in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Maryam Asif Siddiqui, a 12-year-student from Maharashtra, who had won the Bhagwad Gita Champion League in March.
A Bangladeshi national, one of the prime accused in the rape of a septuagenarian nun inside a convent in West Bengal's Nadia district, was arrested and sent to police custody on Thursday, police said.
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