UP scribe booked for video of salt-roti mid-day meal

Lucknow: Journalist Pawan Jaiswal, who made a video of schoolchildren in Mirzapur being served salt and roti as their mid-day meal, has been booked under Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharging duty), 193 (false evidence) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC. Minister of State of Basic Education Satish Dwivedi has flayed the lodging of the case against Jaiswal. TNS

Shivakumar again appears before ED in laundering case

New Delhi: Senior Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money laundering case for the third time on Monday and recorded his statement.It is learnt from sources close to Shivakumar that he had requested ED officials not to call him on Monday owing to Ganesha Chaturthi, but his request was rejected. TNS

Akhlaq lynching case accused held in Noida

Noida: An accused in the 2015 lynching of Dadri’s Mohammad Akhlaq, over suspicion that he had stored beef in his house,  was arrested following an exchange of fire with the police in Greater Noida on Monday. Hari Om, 30, who was wanted in four cases of robbery and dishonestly receiving stolen property in Ghaziabad, was shot in the leg. He, along with other accused, was out on bail. PTI