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British-Era secret tunnel found inside Delhi Legislative Assembly, connects to Red Fort

  A tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Speaking to ANI, Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the legislative assembly to Red Fort and was used by the Britishers to avoid reprisal while moving freedom fighters.  Goel further informed that the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which was used as Central Legislative Assembly after shifting of capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912, was turned into a court in 1926 and Britishers used this tunnel to bring freedom fighters to the court.  "When I became an MLA in 1993, there was hearsay about a tunnel present here that goes till Red Fort and I tried to search for its history. But there was no clarity over it," he stated.  "Now we have got the mouth of the tunnel but we are not digging it further as all the paths of the tunnel have been destroyed due to metro projects and sewer installations," he added.  The assembly speaker added that i...
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"He's Talented, State's Future Asset" ; Guahati High Court on granting Bail to rape accussed IIT Student


The Gauhati high court, while holding that there is a prima facie case against the accused in the IIT, Guwahati rape case, has granted him bail on the ground that the accused being a talented student is the state's future asset. 

                                 The police on April 3 had arrested a 21-year-old student for allegedly "sexually assaulting" a female student of the institute on March 28. He was subsequently "suspended" by the IIT authorities. The bench of Justice Ajit Borthakur after hearing the counsels for both sides – with reference to the FIR, medical report and statements under Sections 161 and 164 CrPC, the contents of the charge-sheet, the fact finding committee report – said there was a clear prima facie case as alleged against the accused. 

"However, as the investigation in the case is complete and both the informant/victim girl and the accused are the state's future assets being talented students pursuing technical courses at the IIT, Guwahati, who are young in the age group of 19 to 21 years only and they hailed from two different states, continuation of detention of the accused in the interest of trial of the case, if charges are framed, may not be necessary," the court in its August 13 order said. 

Appearing on behalf of the victim girl, advocate Sumitra Sarma and additional public prosecuter D Das, vehemently opposed granting of bail to the accused in such a serious offence.

                                         Sarma cited the ratio of the judgments relating to the factors to be considered while granting bail rendered by the Supreme Court. The accused have been charged for the offence under Section 376 (rape)/328(causing hurt by means of poison)/ 307(attempt to murder)/120B(criminal conspiracy) of IPC. However, the court found that there is "no possibility of the accused tampering with evidence or influencing witnesses directly or indirectly, if released on bail". "It is judicially well settled that while dealing with a bail application, the court is not called upon to discuss the merits or demerits of the evidence available against the accused, but some reasons for prima facie concluding while bail is being granted need to be indicated in brief," the order stated.

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