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Air Marshal (retd) Jeetendra Mishra was selected from a shortlist of three candidates prepared out of 5,585 applications that came for the post. His job would be to prevent the kind of financial scandal involving donation boxes at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.

Bristy Mukherjee, the 28-year-old niece of niece of Mamata Banerjee, was one of the 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members who were laid off in the teachers’ recruitment scam.

Instead of covering the 25-km distance from Pari Chowk to Noida, the empty bus ran 47 km to Kashmere Gate in Delhi, and the gangrape took place in the moving bus in the course of this distance, according to police accounts.

The attack on youths reading books at a park in Ahmedabad was the sequel to Bajrang Dal and VHP members earlier protesting the presence of books by Malala Yousafzai and Annie Frank in a school library and asking, “Why are there non-Hindu teachers in a Hindu school?”

At the rally for which the FIR has been filed, Mamata Banerjee had hit out at what she called “political atrocities” being inflicted on her party’s supporters in West Bengal, alleging these were being orchestrated “at the initiative of the BJP.”