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Alleged Khalistani militant arrested in Uttar Pradesh

Muzaffarnagar: A suspected pro-Khalistani group member, who was involved in a plot allegedly to kill former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, was arrested in Shamli district, police said on Friday. The accused, Karam Singh, was arrested on Thursday, Circle Officer Rajesh Kumar Tiwari said.

Meanwhile, Jarman Singh, who was arrested on Thursday in Rajasthan Bikaner’s district, in connection with the case would be brought here and sent to police remand, the CO said. He is the leader of a pro-Khalistani module that had allegedly attacked police personnel and looted their rifles on October 2 in Shamli district. Three others accused in the case were sent to ten-days remand by the court, the police officer said.

The three men were arrested in connection with the October 2 incident. They had revealed that they were linked to militant group Khalistan Liberation Front and had planned to attack Badal during his political rallies.

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Glad key people shedding fear, breaking silence on govt decisions: P Chidambaram

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New Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said it was heartening that persons who were in key posts in the government were “shedding their fear and breaking silence” on important policies and decisions. His reaction came a day after Lieutenant General (Retd) D S Hooda, who was the Northern Army commander when the surgical strikes were carried out on September 29, 2016 across the Line of Control, said that there was “too much hype” over the operation and it was politicised.

In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said it was former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian, who first broke his silence by terming demonetisation a “massive monetary shock”. The former finance minister said that after Subramanian, the recently-retired Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat said demonetisation had no impact on the use of black money in elections.

Now, it is Hooda, who has “decried the hype over the so-called ‘surgical strike’ and its politicisation by government”, Chidambaram said, adding, “Glad to see important persons shedding their fear and breaking their silence”. Last month, Subramanian had raised concerns related to note ban. Six months after resigning as CEA, he described demonetisation as a “massive, draconian, monetary shock”.

Two days after his retirement, Rawat had said the note ban didn’t reduce the misuse of black money in elections but in fact in some states more seizures were reported compared to previous years. The government had banned old Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes on November 8, 2016 with an aim to check corruption and black money besides others.

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