CBI chargesheets land scam judge

New Delhi (PTI): Two years after investigating the Delhi Development Authority scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday chargesheeted former Delhi High Court judge Shamit Mukherjee, former DDA vice-chairman Subhash Sharma and three others in a corruption case.

Special judge H.P. Sharma has fixed May 5 for considering the chargesheets.

The other three chargesheeted persons are hotelier Vinod Khatri, Sharma?s personal secretary Ashok Kapoor and Dharamveer Khatter.

The bureau alleged that Mukherjee had demanded bribe to give a decision in favour of Khatri for building a restaurant in the posh Vasant Kunj area.

The accused have been charged under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The bureau also submitted a CD allegedly containing details of 100 telephone calls between the accused.

Child kidnapper arrested

New Delhi (PTI): A woman, who allegedly kidnapped a one-and-a-half-year-old boy with the intention of selling him, has been arrested.

Munija, who was staying with Anil Kumar Mishra?s family in Seemapuri, allegedly abducted his son Love on Sunday. She had brokered a deal with Satish, a government servant in Bhatinda, to sell the boy for Rs 5,000 and had apparently received an advance of Rs 1,000, north east district deputy commissioner R.L. Meena said.

?I have four daughters and I wanted a son,? said Satish, who has been arrested. His son had died in 2004.

?Munija took Love and his 10-year-old cousin Ajay out of the house on the pretext of shopping around 10.00 am,? Meena said. ?When she did not return till 11.30 am, an alarm was raised. Meanwhile, Munija duped the elder child and took off with Love in a bus leaving behind the former, who called up home to report the incident.?

Mishra lodged a complaint with the Seemapuri station. A team was sent to Ludhiana where Munija had earlier put up , Meena said.

Munija returned to Seemapuri to sell the child, as promised to Satish, but was caught.

Tiger skin & bones seized

Khatima (PTI): Tiger skin and bones, worth Rs 50 lakh in the international market, were seized from three tribals in Uttaranchal?s Champawat district.

Police arrested Gulab Singh Kutiyal, Arjun Bonal and Dinesh Dugtal who were planning to smuggle an 11-foot-long skin and 20 kg of tiger bones to China. The trio admitted to having smuggled the items to China several times earlier, the police said.

New notes

New Delhi (PTI): The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue Rs 100 notes with an inset letter ?G? in both the numbering panels. Except for the change in the inset letter, these notes, in the Mahatma Gandhi series, will be similar to earlier notes in the series, an RBI statement said.

Teachers held

Morena (PTI): Seven government teachers were held while allegedly abetting cheating during the Madhya Pradesh board examinations. The accused were arrested when additional collector M.K. Agrawal visited an examination centre in Ganeshpara on Monday, police said.

Relief for Swades

Lucknow (PTI): The Uttar Pradesh government has exempted the Shahrukh Khan starrer, Swades, from entertainment tax. The state cabinet convened by chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to exempt the film from the tax for three months, chief secretary V.K. Mittal said.

Bomb hoax

Hyderabad (PTI): The railway police control room at Secunderabad station received a call stating that a bomb was planted in the station. A search by securitymen, however, yielded no explosive.

BIS raids

New Delhi (PTI): The Bureau of Indian Standards recently conducted raids against 14 manufacturing and trading units in Assam, Daman and Diu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh for using the ISI mark illegally, a BIS release said.

The National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health has begun a study on bi-monthly injectable contraceptives among women to provide more options in family planning methods.