Man who set himself ablaze in front of DM's office dies
Ahmednagar, Dec 22: A 30-year-old man, who had allegedly set himself on fire on Thursday in front of the district magistrate's office at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra seeking removal of encroachments, has died during treatment, police said.
Tausif Hanif Shaikh, who had suffered around 80 per cent burns in the incident, died during treatment at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune city on Friday morning, police said.
According to an official, the state government has formed a three-member committee to inquire into his death.
Shaikh was demanding removal of encroachments on the land belonging to Peer Daval Malik temple trust at Karjat, 50 km from here, police said.
He had threatened to immolate himself a week ago, and set the deadline of Thursday for the administration to take action. Around 3 pm on Thursday, he poured kerosene and set himself on fire, a police official said adding that Shaikh had suffered serious injuries.
Ahmednagar additional collector Bhanudas Palawe Saturday said a committee headed by him has been appointed to inquire into the incident.
"There will be three members in the committee, which is supposed to submit the report in seven days," he said.
Following the news of Shaikh's death, a bandh was observed in Karjat tehsil in Ahmednagar district on Friday.
Some members of the minority community also staged a demonstration outside the district magistrate's office on Friday, demanding that an FIR be registered against the officials responsible for Shaikh's death.
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Odisha: BJD suspends 6 MLAs for cross-voting in RS polls
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Bhubaneswar (PTI): The Biju Janata Dal on Saturday suspended six of its MLAs for cross-voting during the recent election to four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha.
The suspended legislators were Chakramani Kanhar of Baliguda seat, Naba Kishor Mallick of Jayadev constituency, Souvic Biswal of Choudwar-Cuttack, Subasini Jena of Basta, Ramakanta Bhoi of Tirtol and Devi Ranjan Tripathy of Banki, an order by party chief Naveen Patnaik showed.
The suspension decision was taken at the opposition party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting presided over by Patnaik.
The six MLAs were issued a show-cause notice on March 17.
They submitted their replies on Friday evening, and those were found not satisfactory, said the BJD's chief whip in the Assembly, Pramila Mallik.
The ruling BJP won two of the four Rajya Sabha seats while the opposition BJD and a saffron party-backed Independent candidate bagged one seat each in the biennial polls held last Monday.
While the total number of BJP legislators and Independent MLAs supporting the ruling party was 82 in the 147-member House, the saffron party candidates secured 93 first preference votes, which was 11 more than its strength in the Assembly.
Of these 11 votes, eight were of BJD MLAs and three of Congress legislators, an official had said.
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