Teacher burnt

Purnea (PTI), May 27: A schoolteacher was allegedly burnt alive by his colleagues in a school in Purnea today. uperintendent of police Kim alleged that a group of teachers along with the principal of a middle school under the jurisdiction of Maranga police station took teacher Ranjit Kumar (40) to a toilet, tied his limbs and poured kerosene on him before setting him on fire. Police are searching for the accused.

Drugs seized

Bettiah: Police seized around 200gm of brown sugar from a youth at the bus stand on Monday.

Imprisonment

Patna: A special CBI court on Monday convicted a senior telegraph officer, Ram Badan Singh, in connection with a disproportionate assets case in 2004. CBI special judge B.K. Srivastava sentenced five years of rigorous imprisonment to Singh.