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‘Cannot support all his beliefs’: Tharoor calls himself ‘uncritical fan’ of Nehru; slams BJP for turning him into ‘convenient scapegoat’ | India News

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday once again appeared to strike a balanced tone. While expressing respect for the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and calling him the founder of Indian democracy, Tharoor also said it was necessary to acknowledge Nehru’s…

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‘No credible evidence’: Supreme Court acquits man on death row for girl’s rape-murder; police made accused a ‘scapegoat’ | India News

NEW DELHI: Observing that courts cannot yield to public sentiment and external pressures and punish an accused merely on moral convictions or conjectures, the Supreme Court set aside on Wednesday the conviction of a man on death row for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Chennai in 2017. It said that the…

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