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Historical Event on 3/17/2000

V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1907Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous ancient researcher and mathematician, was born.
7/22/1998Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi.
8/6/1920'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
3/28/1996JKLF declared unlawful by central govt.
8/14/1987Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
10/5/1949A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died.
10/26/1996CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.
10/3/1991Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died.