Trinamool leader shot dead in West Bengal

Purba Bardhaman: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Insan Mallik was shot dead in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district on Friday night. The police said he was shot below waist and died on the way to hospital. While TMC district president Swapan Debnath hit out at opposition parties, Mallik’s wife Shiuli, who is also a TMC leader, said infighting in the party led to her husband’s murder. PTI

Hafiz gets breather in terror-funding trial

Lahore: JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of 26/11 attacks, could not be indicted by an anti-terrorism court on terror-financing charges as the authorities failed to produce other co-accused at the high-profile hearing on Saturday. This came a day after India said it was aware that Hafiz was “roaming freely” and enjoying “Pakistan’s hospitality”. PTI

MP rifle theft: Suspect serving sepoy from Punjab

Bhopal: One of the two men who are suspected to have stolen INSAS rifles from the Army cantonment at Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh has been identified as a serving Army sepoy from Hoshiarpur, the police said on Saturday. “His name is Harpreet Singh, a resident of Miani in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab,” a police official said. PTI