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UP: Gautam Budh All five Mumbai gangrape accused taken to Nagar DM, who backed crime spot

to reconstruct event. Durga Shakti Nagpal, The five accused arrested in raped by the five accused when connection with the gangrape of she had gone to the desolate transferred.
Gautam Budh Nagar District Magistrate Ravikant Singh, who had given a clean chit to suspended Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, has been transferred. The action comes days after Singh had supported Nagpal, the 28-yearold SDM of Gautam Budh Nagar, who led the crackdown on sand mining mafia in her district and was suspended on July 27 ostensibly for ordering demolition of a wall of a under-construction mosque allegedly without following due process. Singh had in his report to the UP government supported Nagpal and said that the wall was demolished by villagers themselves and no JCB machine was put in operation to demolish it. 23-year-old photojournalist were on Wednesday taken to Shakti Mills compound here to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the crime.

Shakti Mills premises on August 22 with a male colleague on an assignment. Her colleague is a prime witness in the case. Joint Commissioner of Police (crime)

All the five accused were brought Himanshu Roy, who is to the crime scene at around 1 PM supervising the investigation, was and police sought details from also present at Mills when the them as to what had transpired on accused were brought there. the fateful day. The reconstruction of event is The victim, an intern with an carried out here to know what & English magazine, was allegedly how the case happened.

Lok Sabha passes Food Security Bill


The Lok Sabha on Monday night passed the ambitious National Food Security Bill, 2013 that seeks to provide highly subsidised food grains to nearly 70 per cent of the population of the country.

empowerment revolution could not see the passage of the Bill as she took ill in the House late in the evening. She was rushed to the AIIMS after complaining of high fever. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Dubbed as a game-changer, the Leader of the House Sushil Kumar flagship measure of the UPA Shinde sat through the will legally entitle 67 proceedings in the House. Indian rupee recovers government per cent of the population after hitting life low of (including 75 per cent rural and 50 The government had promulgated per cent urban) to get subsidised an Ordinance to this effect in July 68.75 against dollar grains under the Targeted Public which had to be replaced by the Distribution System (TPDS). A Bill in the current monsoon beneficiary will be entitled to 5 kg session of Parliament to make it a of rice, wheat or coarse cereals at law. The slumped to a record low Rs. 3, Rs. 2 and Re. 1 per kg a below 68 per dollar and shares month, respectively. The As the Lok Sabha sat till late in tumbled on Wednesday on beneficiaries will be identified by the night to deliberate on a number growing worries that foreign the States based on parameters of amendments that were moved investors will continue to sell out prescribed by the Union by several members after a sixof a country facing stiff economic hour long debate on the Bill. government. challenges and volatile global markets. The Indian unit On a day when the historic recovered later. legislation was being voted, Foreign investors sold nearly $1 Congress president Sonia Gandhi billion of Indian shares in the who was the force behind the eight sessions through tuesday. Bill and dubbed it an

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