Hazaribagh: Police on Friday arrested Tilak Ganjhu, the regional commander of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The arrest was termed to be the biggest catch in recent years.Tilak was touted to be the all-in-all of the Giridih zone comprising Hazaribagh, Giridih, Koderma and Chatra district. Sources said a team especially set up to capture Tilak was constituted after the police received a tip-off. The team, comprising 136 Batallion of the CRPF as well as Chatra police, raided Urab village in Pathalgadda of Pratappur. Tilak had masterminded many attacks on the Giridih police. Jamshedpur: All-India Santhali Education Council (AISEC) on Friday distributed certificates for the primary, secondary and board examinations among the successful students, who had appeared for the examination in Santhali for the session 2003-04. very year, the AISEC, a registered trust, conducts an annual examination for Santhals in Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal simultaneously said the director of AISEC, Birsa Murmu. Giridih: Chattu Mia, a daily wage labourer died of cold on Thursday. The 50- year-old was a resident of Ganeshdih under the Bengabad police station. Chattu Mia was returning home from a farm when he succumbed to the cold. The deceased is survived by his son, who is hearing impaired and wife who is visually impaired. Dumka: Additional district and sessions judge of the Rajmahal sub division, Binoy Kumar Sahay, delivered a death by hanging sentence to a murder accused on Thursday. Five other co-accused in the case were sentenced to life imprisonment. he fate of a teenage girl accused in the case, hangs in balance as her case still pending in the juvenile court in Sahebganj district. Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to M. Ansari, one of the 21 accused of raping the daughter of a Bokaro Steel Employee. nsari was awarded life imprisonment by Bokaro additional session judge on May 22 , 2004, with other accused persons in the case. The news of the order, which was given by a division bench of the Chief Justice N. Dhinakar and M.Y. Eqbal on Thursday, came from Ansari?s advocate on Friday. He said: ?The court has granted bail till the criminal appeal filed by Ansari challenging the additional session judge?s order remains pending.? The victim was raped near Bharra Basti near Kauwali Ground on April 5, 1999.
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TO THE TSRDS for starting the Lifeline Express in the rural pockets of Seraikela and Kharsawan
