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Mumbai, Jul 28 (DIN NEWS) The Maharashtra government justified its decision to remove a special public prosecutor from Khwaja Yunus custodial death case, for seeking to arraign four policemen as accused in it, and told the Bombay High Court that it was not trying to protect the police officials. The government, through a notification in April this year cancelled advocate Deepak Mirajkar’s appointment as special public prosecutor in the case. The government’s decision came after Mirajkar filed an application before a sessions court, which is presently conducting the trial in…

Lucknow, Jul 27 (DIN NEWS) A court here framed charges today against Mohsin Raza alias Arshad, a minister in the BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh, in connection with a 29-year-old road rage case. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nirbhay Prakash also framed charges against co-accused Akbar and fixed August 4 for the recording of evidence of the prosecution witnesses. The accused were present in the court at the time of framing of charges. A truck driver, Lallan, had lodged an FIR at the Wazirganj police station on August 4, 1989, alleging…