A case was filed against the Railway Minister on Thursday for allegedly endangering lives of people by landing an IAF helicopter on a National Highway.
MUZAFFARPUR (BIHAR): A case was filed against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad here on Thursday for allegedly endangering lives of people by landing an IAF helicopter on a National Highway during an aerial survey of flood-hit areas in Bihar.
The complaint was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Kumar by advocate Sudhir Ojha, also a leader of the Lok Janshakti Party of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Lalu's ally in the UPA coalition at the Centre.
The magistrate directed Muzaffarpur's Superintendent of Police Ratan Sanjay to inquire into the matter and submit a report to him within a week.
Ojha, also a stringer for a local Hindi daily, claimed he and a few others were injured in the melee caused on Wednesday by the landing of the helicopter on NH 28 near Manihari village without persmission from the local administration.
Ojha, who said he was on his way to Samastipur on his motorcycle when the helicopter landed, claimed he fell and sustained bruises.
A case was filed under various sections of IPC, including 308 (attempted culpable homicide), 279 (rash driving or riding on a public highway), 283 (danger or obstruction in public way), 431 (mischief by injury to public road), 141 (unlawful assembly) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intent).
Ojha claimed the helicopter, which was also carrying Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and RJD general secretary Shyam Rajak, landed without permission on the highway even though there was no emergency.
British police rapped over Brazilian man's death
LONDON: A watchdog report criticized police Thursday over the killing of an innocent man in the wake of 2005 London bombings, saying there were "serious weaknesses" over how the mistake was admitted.
The long-awaited report said a top officer misled his boss over the victim's identity in the hours after Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes died on July 22, 2005.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), giving a detailed account of the hours after the killing, singled out anti-terrorism chief Andy Hayman for criticism.
"Assistant Commissioner Hayman chose to mislead the public by his actions at 5pm at the July 22 management board sub-meeting," said the report, referring to an internal Metropolitan Police meeting.
De Menezes was shot in the head at point-blank range at a London Underground train station by police, the day after an attempt to launch further suicide bombings following attacks that killed 52 people earlier that month.
Police, who shot the Brazilian electrician after following him onto a train, said at the time they suspected he was a suicide bomber with an explosive belt around his waist.
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