{"id":303215,"date":"2018-09-25T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303215"},"modified":"2018-09-25T07:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:25:30","slug":"bihar-deputy-cm-requests-criminals-not-to-commit-crimes-during-pitru-paksh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-deputy-cm-requests-criminals-not-to-commit-crimes-during-pitru-paksh\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Deputy CM requests criminals not to commit crimes during &#8216;Pitru Paksh&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303217 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Dn3h0BtVYAIXbB1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bihar Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Sushil Modi has requested criminals to refrain from indulging in illegal activities during the period of &#8216;Pitru Paksha&#8217;. He urged them to shun violence during the 15 days of the festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing an event at Gaya Deputy CM Modi said, &#8220;With folded hands, I want to appeal to all the criminals to refrain from indulging in criminal activities during the time of &#8216;Pitru Paksha&#8217;. During other days, you keep doing something or the other.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy CM added, \u201cDo not indulge in any activity that tarnishes the image of Bihar, brings a bad name to the holy town of Gaya and gives the visitors a reason to complain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, while taunting CM Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Modi on deteriorating law and order situation in the state said, \u201cNo need to be surprised even if the infamous pair falls at the feet of criminals\u2026.after all, criminals have more AK-47 rifles than the Bihar police.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8216;Pitru Paksha&#8217; is a significant month of the Hindu calendar. During this time, Hindus pay homage to their ancestors, especially through food offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Sushil Modi has requested criminals to refrain from indulging in illegal activities during the period of &#8216;Pitru Paksha&#8217;. He urged them to shun violence during the 15 days of the festival. While addressing an event at Gaya Deputy CM Modi said, &#8220;With folded hands, I want to appeal to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,5204,5203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303219,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303215\/revisions\/303219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}