Sunday, December 16, 2007

A news item that didn't get much attention

ARARIA: A local court on Saturday framed charges against Union minister Mohd Taslimuddin and two others in connection with an over two decade old case.

First class judicial magistrate S N Jha framed charges against Taslimuddin, Union minister of state for agriculture and consumer affairs, under Sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document and 120(b) (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. [link]
Boy, that's some heavy duty chargesheet.

Meanwhile, Sharad Pawar, the Union Minister for Agriculture who also doubles up as BCCI chief narrowly escaped charges of scalping tickets of India-Pakistan cricket match.

In any case, Congress stands by its commitment to the social sector. So, no worries.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Is it not that Taslimuddin who is accused of rape as well?

And Manmohan is apparently a honest and sincere leader, as per the Indian media