NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday gave a clean chit to the Delhi police in the Massey assault case, in which a business executive was allegedly assaulted by police personnel for straying onto the Prime Minister's route on May 9.

Additional solicitor general A M Singhvi told the division bench that the CBI had completed its probe and found it was a pure case of road accident. There was no proof of the police beating up Martin Massey, the court was told.

More trouble for Karishma Kapoor

JAIPUR: A railway magistrate has issued summons to cine artistes Karisma Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Satish Shah and director Tinu Verma to appear before it on August 1 for allegedly stopping a passenger train at Narena station for a film shooting in March this year.

The railway magistrate, Anil Kumar Saroliya, was taking cognizance of a complaint filed by the assistant station master of Narena station that the artists and the director unauthorisedly pulled the chain of Link Express

on March 11, 1997 to shoot a scene for their film, Bajrang.

The complaint alleged that the train was stopped for more than 25 minutes disrupting traffict on the route and causing inconvenience to the passengers.

Swamy seeks probe into desecration

CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday demanded that the Tamil Nadu Government enquire into the incident at Mudhukulathur in Ramanathapuram district, where a statue of a Thevar leader was found desecrated recently.

Police attacked by CPI supporters

SILIGURI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters damaged a police jeep and injured its driver when they attacked a police party which had intervened to avert a clash with rival Congress activists at Tewari Jote in Phansidewa block of Siliguri sub-division on Monday night.

Additional superintendent of police Ranbir Kumar said on Tuesday that the trouble started when Congress supporters, on the strength of a court order, assembled there to take possession of a plot of land. CPI-M activists tried to obstruct them.

Infant retrieved from garbage bin

INDORE: Stray pigs could have eaten the infant condemned to a garbage bin in Jairampur colony here by his parents, but as luck would have it, four families are willing to adopt him after he was found by civic workers early on Monday.

According to BJP corporator Shanker Lalwani, civic workers, alarmed by the profusely bleeding and crying infant, enquired with residents in the area. The infant boy, bathed and given first aid, was later admitted to the government hospital.

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