Rabri finds date for house shift

Patna: Bihar’s most famous couple has finally found a suitable day for vacating 1 Anne Marg, the chief minister’s official residence, reports our special correspondent.

Leader of Opposition Rabri Devi, allotted the 10 Circular Road bungalow, will make the long-awaited move on Basant Panchami, which falls on February 2.

“After consulting astrologers, the family has decided to shift to the 10 Circular Road house,” said a source close to Rabri Devi’s family.

The former chief minister and her husband Lalu Prasad had earlier indicated that they would vacate the bungalow any time after the “inauspicious” month of Kharmaas, which ended on January 14.

But that did not happen even as the building construction department warned Rabri Devi of stern action if her family failed to vacate the house at the earliest.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar had said the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief’s family could take all the time it needed to move out of the bungalow.

Daya scribe to get cover

Mumbai (PTI): Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government and the city police to give security to former journalist Ketan Tirodkar, who had filed a complaint in a special court alleging that suspended police officer Daya Nayak had links with the underworld.

The order was given on a petition filed by Tirodkar.

The judges said an inquiry was ordered by a special court of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against Tirodkar and Nayak about their underworld links based on the journalist’s allegations.

Mall mishap

New Delhi (PTI): Three persons, including a three-year-old, were killed and two others injured in a landslide in a west Delhi locality on Monday, fire department officials said.

The landslide took place at Najafgarh Chowk in Moti Nagar where a mall was under construction.

Salem move

Mumbai (PTI): Abu Salem moved a local court on Monday, alleging that he was being tortured in custody and was threatened by police to confess in the murder case of actor Manisha Koirala’s former secretary. The judge ordered the police to produce Salem in the court on Tuesday.

Gawli lie test

Mumbai (PTI): Mumbai police will not provide security to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli. He is going to Bangalore on Tuesday for a lie detection test related to the alleged conspiracy by starlet Preeti Jain to kill film director Madhur Bhandarkar.

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