‘Molest’ doctor

Toronto, June 29 (PTI): An Indian-origin doctor in Canada has been accused of sexually assaulting some of his patients over a period of seven years.

iswami Easwara Murthi, 48, assaulted three women and a man, Canadian police said. He has been charged on five counts of sexual assault and two counts of assault, sexual interference and exploitation. The alleged victims were either youths or people in their 30s.

Raj baggage

Mumbai (PTI): A former judge has demanded that photographs of former British judges be removed from the halls of Bombay High Court and the Esplanade court. The former labour court judge, V.P. Patil, now a practising lawyer in the high court, said he wanted Indian courts to get rid of their colonial hangover.

500 held

Chennai (PTI): A city-based police crackdown netted over 500 people on Saturday night. About 40 police teams rounded up drunken and rash drivers, two-wheeler riders who were not wearing helmets and those facing arrest warrants on criminal charges.

Quake panic

New Delhi (PTI): Three aftershocks of moderate intensity triggered panic on Sunday on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tremors, measuring 5.1 and 5.2 on the Richter scale, shook the islands at 6.02am and 9.45am, the Met department said. No tsunami warning was issued. On Friday, the islands were hit by two powerful earthquakes.

Railway drive

New Delhi (PTI): The railways have launched an awareness drive to prevent passengers being robbed by fellow travellers who offered them food laced with sleep-inducing drugs. Anti-drugging cells have been set up at stations on vulnerable routes.

Patil visit

Tirupati (PTI): President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate platinum jubilee celebrations at Tirupati on July 7. Temple sources said the president would arrive by an Indian Air Force aircraft on July 6 and participate in the pre-dawn ritual on July 7.