BJP puts off anti-UPA agitation citing Naxal attack

The BJP today postponed its country-wide anti-UPA agitation, which was scheduled to start from Monday, in the wake of the killing of several Congress leaders in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh.

"The entire country is deeply distressed and concerned over gruesome killings in Chhattisgarh and we condemn it. As a consequence, the BJP has decided to postponed the jail bharo agitation to be undertaken against the failure of the UPA Government from May 27 to June 2," senior party leader Ravishankar Prasad told reporters in New Delhi.

He said the party is holding its national executive meeting in Goa and "future programmes shall be decided there".

Mr Prasad said a meeting under BJP President Rajnath Singh was held today where "the entire challenge to country's republic and democracy due to gruesome violence by Maoists was discussed".

"The attack has left many senior Congress leaders dead or injured and we condemn it in unequivocal terms. It is a great attack on democracy and republic of India," the BJP leader said.

He said the BJP President had gone to meet senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla in Gurgaon where he has been admitted after he was critically injured in Maoists firing on Saturday.

Mr Prasad said the situation in Chhattisgarh "is quite uppermost in our minds and in coming few days, other initiatives would be taken in this regard."

Heavily-armed Maoists ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday, killing 27 people including Congress leader Mahendra Karma, ex-MLA Uday Mudliyar, state unit chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son.

32 others, including senior party leader V C Shukla, were injured.

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Domestic help's murder: 'BSP MP, doctor wife getting VIP treatment in police custody'

BSP parliament member Dhananjay Singh and his doctor wife Jagriti, arrested following the murder of their maid, are getting VIP treatment in police custody, police sources said on Thursday. The sources told IANS that the couple has been lodged in separate rooms at the Chanakyapuri police station and are allowed home cooked food - a practice contrary to norms. The sources said while Dhananjay Singh, who represents Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, has been given the rest room of a sub-inspector, his wife is kept in the rest room of an assistant commissioner of police. 

Domestic help's murder: 'BSP MP, doctor wife getting VIP treatment in police custody' The usual practice is to keep the arrested people in a lock-up when they are in policy custody. "Home food is never allowed for the accused," said a source. "They are getting lunch from home but breakfast and dinner is served from the police canteen." While Dhananjay Singh has been arrested and booked for destroying evidence and violating provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act, his wife has been charged with murder, attempt to murder and violating Juvenile Justice Act. Police say the MP's wife beat and tortured her maid Rakhi, 35, and Rampal, 17, for days. The MP and his wife were arrested on Tuesday. 

Jagriti is the second wife of Dhananjay Singh, whose first wife committed suicide in 2007. Jagriti is a senior resident doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in the heart of the city. "During interrogation, she (Jagriti) broke down once. Now she is her normal self and talks with the police station staff. But the MP rarely speaks. When he does, it is mostly to senior officers," the source added. Neither has shown any remorse, the sources said. According to police, Jagriti beat up Rakhi and Rampal on Sunday night over a petty issue with an iron rod and sticks. She also used an iron press and horns of a dead animal while beating them. Both of them received grievous injuries. 

Delhi Police received a call from the MP's 175, South Avenue house on Monday night, informing them about Rakhi's death. The information was given by the MP himself but he tried to mislead the investigators, police said.

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Gauhati High Court questions validity of CBI, Centre to move Supreme Court

Taken aback by the Gauhati High Court order holding as unconstitutional the setting up of the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, Centre last night said that it would move the Supreme Court as early as Monday to challenge it.

In a curious judgement, the Gauhati High Court has struck down the resolution through which the Central Bureau of Investigation was set up and held all its actions as "unconstitutional".

"The judgement is patently wrong. It is bound to be set aside. We are certainly going to challenge it and the appeal is likely to be filed in the Supreme Court latest by Monday," Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra told PTI.

The judgement by the division bench, comprising justices I A Ansari and Indira Shah, came on a writ petition filed by one Navendra Kumar challenging an order by a single judge of the High Court in 2007 on the resolution through which CBI was set up.

Mr Malhotra contended that the government resolution on the formation of the CBI has been held valid by the Supreme Court time and again in a number of judgements.

"We are confident that the Gauhati judgement will also be set aside," he said, adding, "Today evening, I received the copy of the judgement. I am examining it and tomorrow morning I will speak to the concerned ministry. Only after reading it properly, I will be in a position to comment on it in detail."

"We hereby...set aside and quash the impugned Resolution, dated 01.04.1963, whereby CBI has been constituted... We do hold that the CBI is neither an organ nor a part of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) and the CBI cannot be treated as a 'police force' constituted under the DSPE Act, 1946," the High Court said.

Mr Malhotra, who appeared for the Centre before the High Court, said the constitutional validity of the Act and the formation of the CBI was also upheld way back in 1970 and the latest was in 2010.

The Additional Solicitor General said the verdict will not affect CBI's functioning. The Supreme Court reopens on Monday after a break for Diwali.

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Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday marked by interactive inkblot Google doodle

ann Rorschach's 129th birthday is being celebrated by Google through an interactive doodle.

Born on 8 November 1884 in Zurich, Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach was a Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for inventing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test.

The inkblot test - or the Rorschach test - is a psychological test using which a person's interpretations of inkblots are recorded and assessed through psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. The test is used by psychologists to analyse a person's personality traits and emotional functioning. It's also used for detecting underlying thought disorders, especially when individuals are hesitant to talk about their thinking processes openly.

Friday's interactive Google doodle honouring Hermann Rorschach features different inkblot patterns that can be browsed by clicking on them or on the navigation array keys. The doodle also features a 'Share what you see button' that allows you to share your interpretation of the inkblot on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. The doodle also features a sketch of Hermann Rorschach sitting and making notes.

Hermann Rorschach was fond of klecksography, the art of making inkblots since his school days. He later studied under the guidance of eminent psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. He first started psychoanalysis through inkblots by analysing response of school children to inkblots. Rorschach wrote a book called by the name of Psychodiagnostik in 1921, which is said to be the basis of the inkblot test. He studied and researched 300 mental patients and 100 control subjects for the book.

It is said that after experimenting with several hundred inkblots, Hermann Rorschach shortlisted a set of ten for their diagnostic value.

Rorschach died of peritonitis, which was likely due to a ruptured appendix, on April 1, 1922 at a young age of 37, just an year after writing Psychodiagnostik.

For more Google doodles, visit this page.