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Historical Event on 5/2/1996

Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
12/13/1986Smita Patil, famous film actress, passed away.
9/15/1948The India flag carrying vessel reached Bombay Port.
10/31/199426 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.
9/15/1876Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, was born at Debanandapur in Hoogly district.
2/12/1882Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
1/2/1990Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed.
10/22/1997Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.
8/8/1912Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.