Crime Watch – Newsletter for March 2, 2011

India allows Pakistani team access to 26/11 witnesses

NEW DELHI – India has agreed in principle to allow an investigating team from Pakistan to question Mumbai witnesses of the 2008 terror attack, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Tuesday.

But he added that Islamabad had been asked if Indian investigators could similarly question people accused of conspiring and helping execute the Mumbai carnage that … Read more »».

Chhattisgarh spends Rs.1,200 crore on roads in Maoist areas

RAIPUR – Chhattisgarh, one of the worst Leftist insurgency-hit states of India, has spent a whopping Rs.1,223 crore for creating a road network since 2003-04 in areas hit by Maoist militancy, a senior minister told the state assembly Tuesday.

Public Works Department Minister Brijmohan Agrawal informed the house in a written reply to Leader of …. Read the original article  : Chhattisgarh spends Rs.1,200 crore on roads in Maoist areas.