hief minister Nitish Kumar recently said director-general of police Abhayanand told him that FIR does not always mean first information report. “It could be forced information report,” Nitish said, stressing that many FIRs did not stand the scrutiny of the court and often FIRs were lodged to mislead investigation. He cited the sudden surfacing of a person claiming that he had killed the Assam boy Pritam Bhattacharjee. Scientific investigation found that the man was misleading the probe,” he said at the function of the state forensic laboratory, which recently received new gadgets. “Bihar policemen are notorious for not filing FIRs at all and the chief minister is right in saying that FIRs are often lodged to implicate people. But I hope the gadgets will help the Bihar police find out who murdered the Assam boy,” said an IPS officer, confessing that the state police were yet to get a clue on the issue.peaking about the uture leaders of the RJD, senior Congress leader Sadanand Singh strongly approved the name of young RJD MLA Samarath Choudhary for his oratory skills. He said the RJD should promote him as a future leader. “Perhaps we can ask his father Shakuni Choudhary to quit olitics to make way for Samarath,” said a senior RJD leader. Everybody knows it is very difficult or a politician to retire to pave the way for his son. “Instead, politicians ry to carve out a space or their sons staying n the politics,” said an JD MLA.
Praise doesn’t surprise ‘Pintu’
hen Nepal’s forest minister Yaduvansh Jha came to Patna, the state government officials said he praised Bihar tourism minister Sunil Kumar “Pintu” profusely. Pintu was not surprised. “Nepal is my sasural (in-laws place),” he said. “Pintu” hails from Sitamarhi district, close to Indo-Nepal border. “Thousands of marriages in Sitamarhi is inter-country. Pintu’s marriage is one among them,” said a BJP leader. Politicians recalled that former LJP MLA Nagina Devi, also from Sitamarrhi, had to face a legal case because she hailed from Nepal and got married to an Indian family. After she was elected, her rival claimed that Nagina never applied for an Indian citizenship. But she won the case in the apex court. “Luckily, ‘Pintu’ will not have to face the problem Nagina faced,” added the BJP leader, stressing that politics intermingled with marriages between families in Sitamarhi and Nepal.he RJD chief, Lalu Prasad, is known for visiting temples across the state. But recently chief minister Nitish Kumar was seen praying at a temple at police lines with the JD(U) MP, Shivanand Tiwari. “I know what Nitish was praying for. But his prayers will remain unanswered,” said Lalu. “The difference between Nitish and Lalu is that the former is religious, while the latter is superstitious. No onder, Laluji dubbed the failure of grids in eastern and northern India as a curse of God,” said a JD(U) leader. He said that is why Lalu’s prayers to God at several shrines for returning to power remained unanswered.
