LIVE: Did Not Inform Families of 39 Indians Killed in Mosul as Wanted to Tell Parliament First, Says Sushma Swaraj

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The big news at the moment: Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Atul Johri, who has been booked in eight cases of alleged sexual misconduct, was arrested on Tuesday and produced before a district court in New Delhi.

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that all the 39 taken taken hostage by ISIS in 2014 are dead. The minister confirmed that DNA tests conducted on the exhumed bodies confirmed the identity of the dead. Seventy percent match was established for the 39th body. Under attack from the opposition for not informing the families, Swaraj said that she wanted to inform the Parliament first as it was in session. On the delay in confirmation of the deaths, Swaraj said that the government waited for concrete proofs about the deaths and listed the steps it had taken to identify the bodies. The government had earlier maintained that the kidnapped Indians were alive. Sushma had personally met the familes of the kidnapped persons several times assured them that the government was ?fully and continuously engaged? and ?every possible effort? was being made to ensure their release. The opposition Congress targeted the government for giving “false hope” to the families. “Sad news of the confirmation of the deaths of 39 Indians in Iraq. Thoughts & prayers are w/their families. But why did the Govt give false hope to the nation for three and a half years that the people were still alive? That was disappointing behaviour (sic),” Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted.

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