Kasab used me as human shield: Eyewitness
Six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel caught in Delhi
New Delhi, July 04: Six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from different parts of the Capital Saturday, police said adding "some VVIPs" were on their hit list.
"All the six work for Chhota Shakeel, who works for Dawood Ibrahim. They were planning to target some VVIPs in the national capital," Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) PN Aggarwal told reporters.
"We have just arrested them and will interrogate them about their purpose and targets in the capital," he added.
Aggarwal, however, refused to divulge the identity of those arrested. He also refused to divulge if any weapons were recovered from them.
Delhi Police's Special Cell, which arrested the accused, produced the six before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja who sent them to police custody for seven days.
Jaya's allegations politically motivated: Raja
Chennai, July 04: As the issue kept popping up, Union minister A Raja on Saturday described as "baseless and politically motivated" allegations by AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa that he had tried to influence a Madras High Court judge in a marksheet scandal case.
"The allegations are baseless and politically motivated. It's categorically clear... how many times do you want to know," Raja asked reporters here.
Jayalalithaa had named Raja as the minister who called up Justice R Reghupathy to influence him for an anticipatory bail to Krishnamurthy, a doctor, and his son S Kirub Shridhar.
"A Union Minister talked to me and sought to influence me to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners," the judge had told an open court on June 29 without revealing the name of the minister, sparking off a nation-wide outrage.
Asked whether he had any relationship with Krishnamurthy, Raja shot back "which Krishnamurthy?".
The minister parried questions on whether he intended to take legal action against Jayalalithaa for her allegations.
The AIADMK supremo had on Thursday alleged that the minister was Raja and was acquainted to Krishnamurthy.
She also alleged that Krishnamurthy hailed from Perambalur, Raja's native town, where the minister reportedly had his law office in a building owned by the doctor.
A CBI case was filed against the father-son duo for allegedly using services of a Puducherry University official and a middleman to inflate marks of Shridhar.
Uneasy calm in riot-hit Mysore
Mysore, July 03, 2009: A day after three people were killed in communal clashes in Mysore, the Karnataka town remained tense but calm on Friday with many shops and educational institutions closed.
"The situation is peaceful. No untoward incident has been reported since Thursday evening. Two RAF (Rapid Action Force) companies comprising 150 personnel each have been stationed in the localities that witnessed violence," Mysore Deputy Commissioner of Police P Mannivannan told IANS.
The RAF, which was summoned from Coimbatore in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, staged a flag-march along with the state's reserved police force in the Udayagiri suburb that witnessed communal clashes Thursday.
"As a precaution, we have ordered closure of schools and colleges in the suburbs of Kyatamaranahalli, Mandi, Udayagiri and Narasima Raja Colony. Assembling of five or more persons will continue to be banned Sunday under section 144 of the CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code)," he added.
Shops and business establishments also continued to remain shut in the Udayagiri suburb as an uneasy calm prevailed in other areas of the city, about 140 km from Bangalore.
Three people, including a 15-year-old boy, died on Thursday in clashes in Udayagiri suburb after the carcass of a piglet was found in a mosque built on a disputed site.
"We held meetings with the peace committees set up to restore confidence in the people. The committee members have assured us they will maintain communal harmony and peace," Mannivannan said.
"The construction issue of the mosque in the area comes under the jurisdiction of the civic corporation and not under me. I have ordered an inquiry to ascertain the facts about the disputed site," he clarified.
Kasab used me as human shield: Eyewitness
Mumbai, July 03: An eye witness to the terror attack at Cama Hospital on November 26 last year today told a special court hearing the case that Pakistani gunmen Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismael had made him "human shield" while trying to escape from the clutches of police.
"After hearing gun shots, I rushed to the terrace of the hospital but two gunmen (Kasab and Ismael) were already there and they told me not to close the door," the witness, Chandrakant Tikhe, who works as generator operator and liftman at the hospital told Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
According to Tikhe, the duo asked him the way to escape and when he told them that they could go down through the same staircase, they held a gun on his temple and asked him to lead them downstairs.
"While we were getting down, police were climbing up the stairs. I saw policemen and threw my hands up so that they should not mistake me as terrorist. My colleague who was with the police told them (police) that I am a hospital staff," the witness said deposing before judge M L Tahaliyani.
When Kasab saw policemen he threw a hand grenade and there was an explosion. A splinter hit Tikhe in the neck and he was injured but managed to escaped in the midst of smoke caused due to the explosion.
The witness said Kasab had also fired at police in which two personnel were injured and two others killed.
