If I was PM, would have thrown demonetisation file in dustbin: Rahul Kuala Lumpur, March 10 (IANS): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took everyone by surprise with his reply when he was asked how he would have rolled out demonetisation had he been in the government. His reply was: "If I was the Prime Minister, and someone had given me a file with demonetisation written on it, I would have thrown it in the dustbin." "...out through the door, and into the junkyard. That is what I think should be done with demonetisation," Gandhi said here while interacting with the Indian diaspora in Malaysia. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016, announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes would cease to be legal tender. The Congress party and most of the other opposition parties have been critical demonetisation move, saying it has caused huge damage to the Indian economy. Woman gang-raped, video uploaded on social media in Rajasthan, says Police KOTA, March 10 (PTI): A 40-year-old woman was gang-raped by six men in Rajasthan's Baran district, police said, adding the men also filmed the crime and uploaded the video on social media. She was gang-raped a month ago, though she filed a police complaint after she came to know the video has been uploaded on social media, Baran district police said. The six accused are on the run. The woman, a labourer at a roadside food stall in Kota, filed a police complaint on March 5 against the six men, police officer Baran Anis Ahamed said. In her complaint, she said that a month ago when she went to Baran to visit her relatives, one of the accused, Chetan Meena, 21, who was known to her, took her on his motorcycle to an isolated place near Samaspura village in the pretext of dropping her to her relative's house. Five others joined Meena and they took turns to rape her, she said, alleging that the men also filmed the crime on mobile. The woman's statement will be recorded before a magistrate on Monday, the police officer said. Baran district police are looking for all the accused and are investigating the case. All this happened because I embraced Islam: Hadiya Kozhikode, March 10 (IANS): On her first visit to her home state Kerala after the Supreme Court upheld her marriage with Shafin Jahan, Hadiya on Saturday said "all this happened as I embraced Islam". "The Constitution gives all the freedom to choose their religion, which is a fundamental right of every citizen and all this happened because I embraced Islam," said Hadiya while interacting with the media. Hadiya and her husband arrived here on Saturday from Salem and drove to the office of the Popular Front of India (PFI) where she briefly interacted with reporters. Hadiya, 24, earlier Akhila Ashokan, embraced Islam and married Shafin Jahan, a Muslim. Hadiya's father alleged that she was forcibly converted by groups with links to terrorist outfits. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Thursday said: "Hadiya alias Akhila Asokan is at liberty to pursue her future endeavours according to law." However, the court also said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) would continue its probe into the criminal dimension of the case, if any.
