Summoned
Passages
Abhishek Bachchan, Bollywood’s rising star, by a Delhi court last week. The Little B and the crew of his flopshow, Bas Itna sa Khwab Hai, "assaulted" mediapersons at India Gate during a shoot last year.
Appointed
Justice Hotoi Khetoho Sema is the first Naga judge the Supreme Court has ever had. He was administered the oath of office last week. Sema is the former CJ of the J&K High Court.
Yogi C. Deveshwar, big boss of tobacco giant ITC, as chairman of IIM, Calcutta, by M.M. Joshi. His predecessor had quit amid controversy.
Departed
D.N. Agarwal, the only human plaintiff in the Ayodhya title suit from the VHP side. The other two—Bhagwan Sri Ramlalla Virajman and Janamsthan—are, unfortunately, deemed deities and minors.
M.R. Chhabria, better known as Manu. The "takeover tycoon", acquired the liquor house Shaw Wallace among others, and was the first big NRI to enter India from Dubai in the 1980s.
Dismissed
An 11-year TADA case against Akali leader Simranjit Singh Mann by a Delhi court because the "prosecution is not interested" in conducting his trial.
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