Malegaon blast- Two more picked up from Vapi and Pune

A serving Indian Army officer has been arrested by Maharashtra’s Anti Terrorist Squad for his involvement in the September 29 Malegaon blast in which 6 were dead, report. The Officer was named as Srikant Purohit,Lt. Colonel in Army. He was arrested after a severe Intrrogation by Anti Terrorist Squad for the past 4 Days. ” Custody of Lt. Colonel Purohit was given to Maharshtra ATS after they sought permission in this regard “, an Army official said. He was asked for Interrogation only when those who was already arrested cropped his name. Purohit is suspected to have helped bomb blast accused sadhvi Pragya Thakur and retired army major Ramesh Upadhyaya and his associate Sharad Kulkarni in getting RDX used in the blasts.

Orrisa Doctors to go on Strike From Sunday

2,500 doctors in Orissa have decided to go ahead with a strike despite the government imposing the Essential Services Maintenance Act. They are staging the strike for the sacking three of their colleagues by the Government for postmortem in the Kalinga Nagar violence in January 2006. They had been sacked for removing palms of the bodies during postmortem. Medical fraternity in Orissa says, their colleagues are being made scapegoats, for decisions taken by the administration and the police. Clearly, it will be the ordinary people who will be most affected by the fight between the government and doctors. The strike begins on Tomorrow.