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MOTIHARI: Nine of the 12 named accused in Nepal girl’s rape and murder case under Kundawa Chainpur police station surrendered in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate of Motihari on Saturday. Main accused Siyaram Saha and his son Vinay Saha were arrested on February 3. One accused is still on the run.
East Champaran SP Navin Chandra Jha said the nine accused were sent to jail. They would be taken on remand for interrogation.
The 12-year-old Nepal girl was gang-raped on January 21 by four persons, including Vinay and his father Siyaram, in whose house at Kundawa Chainpur market the victim lived on rent with her family and the crime was committed. Later, the girl was strangled and her body was burned on January 21 night after keeping her parents and brother hostage in her rented room.
PATNA: Bihar s water resources minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Sunday said that the Centre has no plan to shift the Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC) headquarters from Patna to Lucknow, the capital of BJP-ruled state Uttar Pradesh. I personally spoke to the Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat after the news about the shifting of the GFCC headquarters to Lucknow. The Union minister categorically clarified they neither have any such proposal nor intent, Jha told TOI.
Jha also revealed that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar was very much concerned over the clandestine plan of a GFCC official to shift the office to Lucknow. “The CM is maintaining a close watch on the development related to the GFCC,” he said and added Bihar would oppose any move to shift the GFCC head office.
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MOTIHARI/BAGAHA: Cross-border smuggling of petrol and diesel is rampant due to cheaper rates of the fuel in Nepal than in India.
Nepal shares porous border with India. People easily cross the border through narrow tracks. Petrol and diesel are being smuggled by the local people in jerry cans from Nepal on foot and sold to small retailers in bordering markets of East Champaran district, badly affecting the business of petrol pump owners in bordering areas of the district for the last one month. The owners of Raxaul, Adapur, Chauradano, Ghorasahan and Kundwa-Chainpur petrol stations claim heavy losses due to smuggling of petroleum products from Nepal.
PATNA: Lamenting that Bihar is getting electricity from the Central government’s power plants at a higher rate compared to other states, CM Nitish Kum.
JD(U) president RCP Singh provides party membership to the newly inducted leader who came from the LJP.
PATNA: A group of senior LJP leaders have claimed that the induction of some expelled members of the Chirag Paswan-led LJP in JD(U) will pave the way for the erosion of JD(U).
Talking to reporters, LJP MP from Nawada Chandan Singh thanked JD(U) for inducting leaders of LJP, who were expelled for anti-party activities during the recently held state assembly polls.
Describing those leaders as traitors , Singh said such people would damage any party they remain attached to. Moreover, the list of the leaders as well workers, who joined the JD(U) at a function here, was a fake one, he added.