Top Muslims in BJP clash with Maneka

The BJP national executive continued to degenerate into chaos on Sunday, with leaders indulging in a vicious blame game following the party’s Lok Sabha defeat.

The final day of the national executive session witnessed a heated exchange between Ms Maneka Gandhi, MP from Aonla, and the party’s prominent Muslim faces — Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Shahnawaz Hussain.During the open session, without identifying Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi by name, Mr Hussain hit out at the “aggressive Hindutva stance” adopted by some leaders in the election campaign. He also expressed displeasure over the constant leak of internal party matters to the media.

Ms Gandhi intervened at this stage and attacked Mr Hussain, accusing the party’s Muslim MP from Bhagalpur of “leaking reports”.

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Aarushi case:Central Bureau of investigation turns to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences for help

The CBI, tied up in knots in the Aarushi murder investigation, is now banking on forensic examination of vital clues by experts at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences to crack the case.

The CBI had earlier sought the help of AIIMS experts in the Rizwanur Rehman probe in Kolkata and the gruesome Nithari killings in Noida.

The Noida police’s failure to recover the weapons used to kill Aarushi and the family servant Hemraj, even after intensive questioning of Dr Rajesh Talwar, has put added pressure on the CBI. It is also asking forensic scientists to re-examine the post-mortem reports to determine whether these were tampered with.

Forensic experts have told the CBI that it is possible the same weapon was used to kill both victims. They feel that a Nepali khukri, with one side blunt and the other one sharp, might have been used. “If two weapons were used, then one of them could be a butcher’s knife,” Dr Sudhir Gupta, AIIMS associate professor of forensic sciences, told this newspaper.

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