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Man jailed over Facebook message By Laura Clout Last Updated: 2:06am BST 05/10/2007 A husband banned from contacting his estranged wife was jailed after he inadvertently sent her a message on the social networking site Facebook. Dylan Osborn, 37, had been ordered by magistrates not to contact his wife Claire Tarbox, after he harassed her with phonecalls and text messages. But when he joined Facebook to look at a friends wedding photos, the site sent an automatic friend request to everyone on his email list - including his ex-partner. advertisement Telegraph - Menswear/Shoes Osborn, from Newport Pagnell, Bucks, said the message had been sent without his knowledge, but the following day his wife contacted police. He was arrested for breaching his bail conditions and a judge later ordered him to spend ten days in prison. He was finally freed three days early after a plea from his solicitor. Speaking afterwards, Osborn, an engineer, said he had been confused by the websites sign-in procedure. He said: I certainly hadnt intended to contact my wife... I didnt even know she had a Facebook account. To be honest, I dont think the judge understood how it works either. People on Facebook should be careful - this could easily happen to someone else. The couple, who have an eight-year-old daughter, split up three years ago. Ms Tarbox was granted the initial injunction after Mr Dylan admitted harassing her with text messages and phone calls. His solicitor William Eaglestone told Milton Keynes Magistrates Court the messages were not threatening, but instead rather sad. One read: I beg you, please dont sleep with someone else. We need to sort this out. Osborn was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced for the harassment charge later this month. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/04/nface104.xml

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Director 'slaps' Tamil actress, film industry irate By IBNlive.com Monday October 15, 09:42 PM Chennai: Tamil actress Padma Priya has alleged that she was slapped by the director of her forthcoming film Mirugam(Animal). Padma Priya alleges that film director Samy slapped her in front of the whole crew, just because her performance in a scene was not good enough. But Samy on the other hand claims the actress was at fault. “I took 10 takes. In the 11th take her mind was not there. In between she used a bad word. I got angry and hence I used to beat her,” says Samy. Padma Priya has now approached the South Indian Artistes Association, Nadigar Sangam for justice. The actress has won acclaim for her roles in many Malayalam movies, and more recent Tamil productions like Cheran's Thavamai Thavamirundu. She has even been roped by veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan his next movie. Film critics feel Samy has gone too far in abusing an actress of her stature. “You don’t go and abuse your own lead actress. It’s never done. Padmapriya for example is a very fine actress,” says film critic, Sreedhar Pillai. It's hard to say if a male actor would ever have been meted out such a treatment if he were in Padma Priya'ss situation. And the question is how far can one go for art's sake, and is it necessary at the expense of someone's personal dignity? Tamil director slaps heroine, banned for a year Express News Service Posted online: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 0000 hrs Print Email “I am not competent to say if the punishment is sufficient or not, but the film fraternity’s prompt action of coming to the aid of an artiste is definitely a deterrent for such behaviour” — Padmapriya CHENNAI, OCTOBER 16: The Tamil film industry has imposed a ban on one of its directors for slapping the heroine of his film while shooting a scene. Several film industry associations, including the influential Federation of Film Employees of South India (FEFSI) and the Producers’ Council, imposed the year-long ban on director Samy for slapping actress Padmapriya. The actor had become popular with off-beat films like Thavamai Thavam Irundhu and Satham Podathey.

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I didn't see this in the other sports section...and it is almost WTF article.... A bit late though.... Orissa tribal boys are rugby world champions Rajdeep Datta Roy Kolkata: At first glance it’s hard to believe that the group of 12 shy boys huddled together in a corner of a central Kolkata hotel lobby are world champions. The odd bunch, including some who first wore shoes a few years ago, are led by a gawky 14-year-old—Bikash Chandra Murmu—captain of the India under-14 team that lifted the International School Rugby Tournament in London on Saturday. The team, Jungle Crows, won the tournament, the de facto World Cup at that level, beating a more experienced South African team, Langa Lions, 19-5. “It was a dream come true,” said Murmu in broken Hindi, overwhelmed by the flashbulbs at a felicitation ceremony here. He and his team-mates—Chittaranjan Murmu, Babulal Malka, Rajkishore Murmu, Bukei Hansda, Niranjan Biswal, Hadi Dhanga Majhi, Sahadev Majhi, Gorang Jamuda, Narasingh Kerei, Barial Behera and Ganesh Hembram—hail from some of the most backward districts of Orissa. “We beat Zambia, Romania, Kenya and Swaziland to reach the final,” said one of the coaches, Sanjay Patra, in an email from London. The victorious Jungle Crows team poses with the trophy at a Kolkata hotel The team almost didn’t make it to London because the players didn’t even have valid birth certificates that are mandatory for their passports—a common problem in rural areas. Only timely intervention by the ministry of external affairs helped them board the flight. “Getting on the aircraft was scary, but fun,” said an obviously shy Hansda, with an impish smile. Hansda can barely cobble together the words in Hindi and the rest of his teammates speak nothing, but Oriya. “These boys are not frightened by bigger boys and they tackle really well,” said Tim Grandage, who runs the Kolkata-based rugby team, Future Hope. Underlining the importance of tackling in a sport such as rugby, Grandage, whose team is made up of children picked up from the mean streets of Kolkata, said, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall when tackled.” The boys are from the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, a residential institution for tribal students in Bhubaneswar and are part of some 5,000 tribal students given free residence and education, from kindergarten to post graduation, according to Achyut Samanta, founder-secretary of the institute. “What makes their achievement even more remarkable is that the boys started playing rugby barely four months ago,” said Samanta. The winning team draws its name from the Kolkata rugby team, Jungle Crows, which runs a development programme in a number of schools and non-governmental organizations. The Orissa boys were trained by Jungle Crows’ English Rugby Association coach Paul Walsh and Kolkata-based coach Sellen Tudu, apart from Patra, also a city boy. The team was formed only in May 2004. Bikash Chandra Murmu, captain of the under-14 team, with Achyut Samanta, founder-secretary of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences that provides free residence and education to the boys Coach Walsh said the boys succeeded in the face of such heavy odds because of their calmness and steely resolve. “They are clever and well-organized and totally committed in attack and defence,” said Walsh. Himself a hardened rugby player, Walsh is all praise for his wards. “Often, the boys got sick travelling in buses and trains, but it never stopped them,” he said, adding, “Even when very cold, they stepped up and focused on the game.” “Being tribals, these boys are naturally gifted with fitness and agility, but what made the difference was the hard training that they did together,” said Grandage. “We practised for more than almost five hours every day, morning and evening,” said Murmu. “The tribals from Orissa have overcome marginalization and poverty to do the country proud in sports,” said Samanta. “Rugby was a totally alien game for the boys and we never expected them to do so well,” he added. Jungle Crows’ victory comes at a time when junior rugby teams from Kolkata have been making a mark in the international as well as the domestic arena. The Tudu-coached Don Bosco Ashalaya team is now in Paris to play a series of matches and Grandage’s Future Hope made it to the quarter-finals of the All India and South Asia meet at the Bombay Gymkhana last week. “Only the top 12 teams from India make it to the tournament, which was eventually won by the army,” Grandage said. “Rugby, as a whole, is picking up steam in India,” said Agha Raza Hussain, vice-president of the Indian Rugby Football Union. “Apart from the army and the various police forces, individuals are taking to rugby in a big way,” he added. Hussain, whose son Nasser is the captain of the national team, said measures such as hiring a coach from Fiji and a regional development manager from New Zealand, famous for its All Blacks (rugby team), would help in a big way. However, Walsh laments the fact that big companies still don’t feel attracted to the sport. “Though we have had a great response from some corporates, namely, JCB India Ltd, BOC India Ltd and a few others, who support the Crows, we were unable to find a sponsor for this tour,” he said. While in England, the boys stayed with host families. “They made such an impression that there were lots of tears when they left,” said Walsh. “Nobody had a bad word to say about the boys; they were tremendous ambassadors for India.” For now, Murmu, a class IX student, is soaking up the limelight and making plans of how to follow his dream. No, he doesn’t want to become a professional rugby player; he wants to become a scientist. http://www.livemint.com/2007/10/03002343/Orissa-tribal-boys-are-rugbyw.html

[gorah_pindu]

^^ Cool.

[Lurker]

A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tiffany Sutton told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Udall that she was sorry for the incident and said she never meant to hurt anyone, but received the stiff sentence anyway after he called the crime especially heinous. Sutton, 24, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in August. She was arrested by Tempe police in February after she repeatedly stabbed her lover during an alcohol- and drug-fueled sexual tryst. According to police reports, the victim, 46-year-old Robert McDaniel, agreed to be tied up during sex but became alarmed and asked to be untied when Sutton pulled out a knife and said she liked to drink blood. Sutton then attacked him, slicing his leg, puncturing his arm, shoulder and back and cutting his neck and stomach. When he escaped, she chased him with a pickax. Sutton's attorney, Elizabeth Houck, told the judge at Tuesday's hearing that she suffers from a personality disorder that causes instability and has taken responsibility for her actions, according to the East Valley Tribune. Houck wrote in a sentencing memo that prison records show Sutton thought she was a vampire for the first several weeks she was in jail. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=3766914 :hysterical: or

[Gambit]

[h1]Grooms beaten up for demanding dowry, cop killed[/h1] CNN-IBN Published on Tuesday , November 06, 2007 at 09:00 in Nation section New Delhi: One policeman was killed and at least six others were injured while trying to save two bridegrooms from an angry village mob in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh. The grooms – brothers Latafat and Gafoor - and their wedding party were beaten up after they allegedly demanded dowry from the brides’ families. The members of the party are being kept hostage. Reports say the angry villagers beat up Latafat and Gafoor and smeared their faces with black ink. Their father too was beaten. According to the villagers, the father demanded a car and Rs 1 lakh in cash as dowry for each of his sons just before the ceremony began. “The Circle Officer was at the spot I also informed the rural SP. But things went out of control after 1.30 am,” Meerut SSP Jyoti Narayan told CNN-IBN. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/grooms-beaten-up-for-demanding-dowry-cop-killed/51815-3.html

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[h1]Angry Rabri beats up cop for stopping her son[/h1] CNN-IBN Published on Tuesday , November 06, 2007 at 12:57 in Nation section New Delhi: The Bihar Police have lodged a complaint of misbehavior against former chief minister Rabri Devi. Police say the leader of the Opposition in the state hit one of them with a wooden stick on Monday. Rabri was allegedly angry with him for having stopped her son's car. Reports say security personnel stopped her elder son, Tej Pratap's car on Circular Road when he was returning home from school. The car was not allowed to go through as the road is closed to traffic on Mondays when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar holds a Janta Durbar at his official residence, 1 Anne Marg. Pratap then called up his residence and a number of people from there, including Rabri Devi, rushed to the place following which the dropgate was lifted and his car was allowed to proceed. However, the incident did not end there. Rabri Devi then allegedly led an angry group of RJD supporters to the makeshift police post, protesting the traffic curbs. Police sources say what happened thereafter is unprecedented. They shouted slogans outside the makeshift police post and even pulled down a portion of the tent that had been erected for the policemen on duty, reports news agency PTI. Says a BMP jawan, Deepak Kumar, "Rabri Devi came to me and asked me my name. I couldn't recognise her son. Had I been able to, I would have allowed him inside. I had a stick in my hand. She took the stick and hit me." Rabri Devi, however, denied any misbehaviour by her son and those accompanying her with the security men. Instead she has said that it was the policemen who misbehaved and used foul language. Both Rabri Devi and her husband, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad complained that there was a 'curfew-like' scene every Monday when the Janata Durbar was held and common people had to suffer humiliation by the policemen guarding both ends of the Circular Road. (With inputs from PTI) http://www.ibnlive.com/news/angry-rabri-beats-up-cop-for-stopping-her-son/51826-3.html :hysterical:

[Dirty_South]

I hate this Robbery Bit*h

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Marathon surgery begins to separate conjoined twins ibnlive.com MAY GOD BLESS YOU: Doctors say the baby is stable with no complications so far. Bangalore: Specialists at Sparsh Hospitals in Bangalore have begun a marathan 40-hour operation on Tuesday afternoon to separate two-year-old Laksmi from her Ischiopagus Tetrapus conjoined twin. For Lakshmi, it's going to be a quest for new life. Laksmi was born into a poor family in a village in Araria district near the Bihar-Nepal border. She has two bodies untied at the pelvis. However, only one of the twins has a head and the other is a parasite. A team of 36 doctors are carrying out the operation to rid the girl of her headless twin. The Director of Sparsh Hospital, Sharan Patil, is leading the team of surgeons, which included noted paediatric surgeon Dr Ashley D'Cruz and plastic surgeon and reconstruction expert Dr Ashok Rajpal. Dr Shweta Patil of the hospital told UNI that the condition of the baby was stable, with no complications so far. "We are proceeding with the first stage of the surgery — to separate the parasitic parts. This is likely to be completed on Tuesday night. The second stage of pelvic reconstruction and skin cell replacement will be taken up on Wednesday. The two stages of the surgery will be a continuous process," she said. Lakshmi had one kidney in her body and the other in the body of the twin. The spinal cord runs through the other torso and had two excretory passages. "The greatest challenge before us is to remove the extraneous parts and move all the structures up into Lakshmi without causing any harm to her vital organs," Dr Patil said. Dr Sharan Shivraj Patil, an Orthopaedic Surgeon with Sparsh Hospital, said the surgery involves a great amount of risk unlike routine surgical procedures. "This is a special situation,” he says. Dr Patil says there are anywhere between 20-30 per cent chance of losing the baby. Fortunately for Lakshmi, the surgery that costs up to Rs 25 lakh is being performed for free. The specialists at Sparsh Hospitals had brought the baby from a poor household in the remote Rampur village on Bihar-Nepal border. "First when we saw her, we were really scared. She was born during Diwali, so everyone in the village said our child was Goddess Lakshmi incarnate because she had eight limbs. Everyone started worshipping her. We also worshipped her," says Lakshmi's father, Shambhu. The baby's mother Poonam, who married Shambu six years ago, had given birth to Lakshmi, her second child, in her mother's home without any medical supervision. She did not receive any antenatal care too.

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[h1]Two-year-old Asian kid booked for over-speeding[/h1] [h2]Agencies[/h2] Posted online: Saturday , November 10, 2007 at 12:00:00 Updated: Saturday , November 10, 2007 at 02:17:24Print Email To Editor London, November 10: The parents of a two-year-old kid of Asian origin are at their wits' end. The reason: Their daughter has been booked by the police for over-speeding. Ayesha Khan was apparently clocked driving 65 mph in a 40 mph zone by the South Yorkshire Police, following which her mother was told to pay up a fine or face court, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. "Ayesha is only two years old, she cannot even reach the pedals of a car and can only just ride her bicycle," her mother Sharna was quoted by the daily as saying. Ayesha was allegedly flashed by a speed camera in on the York Road in Doncaster. "At first I assumed someone had been caught for speeding and just give a false name, but the ticket was issued from a speed camera. If the car that was speeding on the police system registered to Ayesha, then they would have needed her details to insure and register the car," she said. However, when contacted, the police admitted making a mistake after it's proved that Sharna was in Huddersfield at the time of the offence and the vehicle's registration didn't match their car. Chief Inspector Ian Blint, head of roads' policing, said: "There has been an ambiguity in the information supplied to us that caused the notice of intended prosecution to be issued to Ayesha Khan. This is beyond our control and we apologise for any inconvenience and distress caused by the Khan family. We are satisfied that there has been no deliberate attempt by anyone to mislead."

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Reader discretion is advised [h1]Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured[/h1] By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 10:10am GMT 13/11/2007 An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A. Man hurt after blasting wheel with shotgun Delhi's monkey business takes sinister twist Another reason why men like curves Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident. Dr Anthony Gaspari believes that he has diagnosed Dede's rare conditionThe welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks. Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition. To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases. Although supported by his extended family, he was often a target of abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village. But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life. After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers. Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts. The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet. Dede's counts of a key type of white blood cell are so low that Dr Gaspari initially suspected he may have the Aids virus. But tests showed he did not, and it became clear that Dede's immune condition was something far rarer and more mysterious. Warts aside, he had enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life - which would not be expected of someone with a suppressed immune system - and neither his parents nor his siblings have shown signs of developing lesions. "The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph. Dede with his teenage daughter. He fears that his two children may also become infectedDr Gaspari, who became involved in the case through a Discovery Channel documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV. "He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said. "Over the course of three to six months the warts should be come smaller and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life." The most resilient warts could then be frozen off and the growths on his hands and feet surgically removed. Dr Gaspari hopes to get the necessary drugs free of charge from pharmaceutical firms. They would then be administered by Indonesian doctors under his supervision. Still intrigued by the origins of Dede's peculiar immune condition, the doctor would like to fly him to the United States for further examination, but fears the financial and bureaucratic barriers would prove too difficult to overcome. "I would like to bring him to the US to run tests on where his immune condition has come from, but I would need funding and to get him a visa as well as someone to cover the costs of the tests," he said. "I've never seen anything like this in my entire career." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MLYGYKBGOGQ2DQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/11/12/wtree112.xml

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why did i see this i was about to go to bed

[Dirty_South]

OMG ! :afraid:

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http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article&sectid=3&contentid=200711132007111303400178180559295 My wife’s a *****! Man marries a female dog in Tamil Nadu after astrologer tells him his illnesses are the ‘curse’ of the canines he killed while they were mating Back to Section Stories Posted On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Jayaraj SivanChennai: In an act of penance, laced with a good measure of superstition, a youth in south Tamil Nadu has married a *****. Literally. The bizarre wedding took place at A Vilakulam in Manamadurai, Sivagangai district, on Sunday. The marriage had all the trappings of a conventional Hindu wedding. Selva Kumar with Selvi: Kumar had beaten two dogs to death while they were mating 15 years agoThe 33-year-old groom, Selva Kumar, waited at the pandal dressed in white dhoti and shirt, and Selvi, the 3-year-old *****, was brought in dressed in a silk sari. The two garlanded each other — Selva’s relatives were more than happy to extend a helping hand to his life-partner as she garlanded her spouse. The ceremony ended with him tying the mangalsutra round Selvi’s neck. A grand feast followed, and Selva fed his better half, her favourite food, buns. He also vowed to care for and protect his wife. The wedding was the culmination of a story that dates back to Selva’s childhood, 15 years ago. He had been haunted by the guilt of beating a dog and a *****, while they were mating, to death. To exhibit his heroism, he even hung their carcasses from a tree. Since then, life had been miserable. Within four days of killing the dogs, Selva’s limbs were paralysed. Then, he became deaf. When medicines yielded no results, Selva consulted an astrologer, who said his miseries were the curse of the canines he murdered. As a remedy, the astrologer asked Selva to marry a *****.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Husband_gets_wife_raped_over_dowry/articleshow/2549104.cms GHAZIABAD/GREATER NOIDA: In a gruesome incident, a 24-year-old woman was allegedly raped by seven people, repeatedly, at the instigation of her husband. Reason? She could not bring Rs 2 lakh as dowry. The woman has alleged that she was raped and beaten over 15 days in the house of a person in Dadri's Tulsi Vihar colony. The Dadri police did not register a case despite the woman's father handing over a complaint to the office of Vijay Kumar, Meerut police range deputy IG, on September 12. All the cops did was to go with her parents to rescue her from the house. The woman was hospitalised three months ago after her husband allegedly tried to hang her. But despite the Ghaziabad hospital sending a memo to Ghaziabad's Kavi Nagar police station, no case was registered. The woman and her mother also claim the victim's father has been taken captive by her husband to deter him from filing a report. Meerut police range IG VK Gupta has ordered Ghaziabad senior superintendent of police Deepak Ratan to have the matter investigated. According to a written complaint handed to the Meerut police DIG, the woman was married at her paternal village in Bulandshahr district on July 5, 2006. "Soon after," she said, "my husband told me he wanted Rs 2 lakh as dowry or he would reduce me to a state where I wouldn't be able to show my face to anyone. Later, he made a noose out of my dupatta and hung me from a grill in his house...Then I lost consciousness. I woke up four days later in an hospital. Some Kavi Nagar policemen came there to question my family members but they did not take any action." The cops are investigating the case and no arrests have been made so far.

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In a first, Mumbai cop takes paternity leave MUMBAI: He is a toughie at work, whose job is to protect VIPs in Mumbai. But, at home, Vinay Kargaonkar is playing the role of Daddy Cool, changing diapers and cleaning baby poop. Kargaonkar, a 1990-batch IPS officer, has become the first Mumbai cop to go on paternity leave; he has been on a month-long leave since October 19 to be with his wife who has delivered their second baby. Kargaonkar doesn't know that he has, unwittingly, earned a first in the Mumbai Police force. "I am surprised. The Fifth Pay Commission introduced paternity leave a long time ago. Two IPS officers I know have taken such a leave. But one of them was in Thane and the other in the Central Bureau of Investigation," the 44-year-old Kargaonkar, amused at earning the unique "distinction", said. The Fifth Pay Commission in 1997 enhanced the ceiling of 90 days of maternity leave to 135 days and, at the same time, introduced 15 days of paternity leave for male central government employees. The leave can be combined with any other kind of leave and cannot be refused under normal circumstances. Kargaonkar has combined his earned leave with paternity leave to stay at home for a month. The father had no intentions of missing the first few days in his new-born baby's life. He had not seen his first child for eight long months after he was born. "That was bad. I was serving with the United Nations in Kosovo on deputation seven years ago. I am now making up for the loss," the excited dad said. "It's such a good experience. I see daily changes in him, his face is becoming clearer. He is looks everywhere curiously," Kargaonkar, who stayed at the hospital with his wife all through the week as she recovered from the Caesarean operation she underwent, said. But why did it take so long for a Mumbai policeman to use a privilege introduced 10 years ago? Joint commissioner of police (administration) Hemant Karkare explained: "IPS officers posted in Mumbai usually come here after serving in the mofussil areas of the state and, therefore, tend to be seniors in the force. So, by the time they arrive here, they have had children and are past the age of needing such leave." Nothing funny about the story. It's worth posting in this thread, because our media has got this pathetic that they will post almost anything on their paper to fill up the space :hysterical:

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7103292.stm Afazuddin Ali, 36, has five children - three of them daughters. A few months ago Ali married his eldest daughter, telling his wife Sakina that Allah had ordained him to do so. Not convinced by his story, his angry neighbours in Kasiajhiora village nearly lynched him for what they said was a clear case of incest. Marriage within the nuclear family is forbidden in Islam. 'Divine sanction' "He is a deeply religious man and will never lie in the name of Allah," Sakina told a court in the northern district of Jalpaiguri. "I agreed to his marriage with our eldest daughter when he invoked divine sanction," she said. But this story has failed to impress the other villagers. "We didn't know she was married so when we confronted his wife, she told us about the bizarre marriage six months ago," Sheikh Ramzan, a village leader at Kasiajhiora, said. "We wanted to smash his head, we were so angry." When the angry mob attacked Ali on Sunday, a police team went to the village and rescued Ali and his wife. The couple were produced before a magistrate in Jalpaiguri on Monday. But as the lower court has no criminal jurisdiction, Ali and his wife were released. "The police have not lodged any specific charge against Afazuddin (Ali) and my court has no jurisdiction over criminal matters, so what can I do," sub-divisional officer Atanu Roy said. Angry villagers say that is not good enough. "The girl is a minor, so at the very least her father should face criminal charges for marrying a minor," villager Sheikh Ramzan said. Ali and his wife have not returned home because they fear a fresh attack from angry villagers. They are staying in Jalpaiguri town at the moment.