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Sanjay Jain was arrested by the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police on Friday night and produced before the court where the magistrate remanded him to the police custody.

A Raj Bhavan spokesperson said it was a courtesy meeting during which the chief minister briefed the governor about the efforts being taken to protect the state from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Centre has decided to depute a multi-disciplinary team to Bihar, which has seen a surge in cases, to review and coordinate with the state in managing the pandemic there, according to an office memorandum issued by the health ministry.

In the FIR, details of conversations of rebel MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma with Sanjay Jain and Union minister Gajendra Singh are mentioned.

IAS officer M Sivasankar was earlier summoned by the Customs as part of the ongoing investigation into the gold smuggling case where gold, weighing over 30 kg and valued at around Rs 15 crore, was seized.

Expressing doubts about the secretariat demolition, Opposition parties have asked the government why they are maintaining secrecy over the exercise.

Her letter came a day after a BJP delegation called on the president over the death of its legislator, who was found hanging from the ceiling of a verandah near his home in Bindal village in North Dinajpur district on Monday.

The Kurmis are numerically the largest land-proprietary backward caste group after the Yadavs in UP and Bihar. And perhaps the biggest if one were to consider their spread across north, western and central India.

Top officials of the ministries of Electronics and Information Technology and Home Affairs briefed the panel on data security, sources said.

Though the BJP has made no official comment about any negotiation with rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot, sources said he has spoken to some leaders from the saffron party.

Calling for a CBI probe into the case, Rahul Sinha, the national secretary of the BJP, said the police and the administration were trying to 'project the murder as suicide'.

Clarifying that Pilot won't join BJP, sources told News18 that a formal announcement on party formation will be done after Monday's Congress Legislature Party.

Addressing a press conference at CM Ashok Gehlot's home, MLAs Rohit Bohra, Danish Abrar and Chetan Dudi said they will do whatever the top leadership tells them.

Earlier at a press conference, Gehlot had accused the opposition BJP of trying to topple his government by offering his legislators large sums of money.

Kishor, once a confidant of the JD(U) president before he turned a critic and was expelled from the party suggested that the Bihar assembly polls should be deferred due to the pandemic.

The party said it hoped that the government will take steps in the next few weeks rather than waiting for Pakistan to make amends.