Domestic news digest for the week

Saturday

New Delhi: Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar is unanimously chosen the next Chief Vigilance Commissioner, four months after the Supreme Court had quashed the appointment of PJ Thomas to the post.

Mumbai: Kannada actress Maria Susairaj, sentenced to three-year imprisonment in the 2008 murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover, gets release from the jail as she has already spent the term behind the bars.

Sunday

New Delhi: Former Secretary General of CWG Organising Committee Lalit Bhanot, arrested for his alleged role in a scam, flouted the standard procedures to be followed for drafting minutes of the Committee's meeting on purchasing of equipment, a senior OC official tells CBI.

Lucknow: The gunner of a circle officer is arrested for the sensational killing of a girl whose body was found hanging in a police station in UP's Lakhimpur district, with authorities alleging that he took her life when she raised an alarm during a molestation bid.

Monday

Hyderabad/New Delhi: Mounting pressure on the Centre for an early decision on separate Telangana, 10 Congress MPs and 39 of its MLAs, including 11 ministers, and 34 TDP MLAs from the region resign from Parliament and Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court appoints a high-level Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former apex court judge BP Jeevan Reddy to monitor the probe and the steps being taken to bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks.

Tuesday

Hyderabad: Following en masse resignation of Congress and TDP MLAs from Telangana region, all 11 MLAs of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) resign from their posts on the separate statehood demand.

Chhattisgarh: Coming down heavily on involving vigilante group (Salwa Judum) in fighting Maoists, the Supreme Court restrains the Chhattisgarh government and the Centre from arming Special Police Officers (SPOs) calling the 5,000-strong force as "unconstitutional".

Wednesday

New Delhi: Union Textile Minister Dayanidhi Maran comes under the Supreme Court's scanner in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam with the CBI raking up his role in "forcing" a Chennai-based telecom promoter to sell his stakes in Aircel to a Malaysian firm in 2006.

Alawalpur/Aligarh: Continuing his footmarch in Uttar Pradesh for the second day, Rahul Gandhi lashes out at Chief Minister Mayawati over "forcible" acquisition of land from farmers and says the state government must understand its responsibilities.

Thursday

New Delhi: Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran resigns from the Union Cabinet, becoming the second DMK casualty in the Government in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Kanshiram Nagar (UP): At least 38 people died and 32 others get injured when a train rammed into a bus carrying a marriage party at an unmanned crossing.

Friday

Ghagholi (Aligarh): Citing compulsions of coalition politics in the delay in the Land Acquisition Bill, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi promises that the bill when finally passes will be in favour of farmers.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court restrains the seven-member committee from opening vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which according to various estimates contains wealth worth over Rs 1 lakh crore.