Who is Ashok Solomon? A repeat offender who dodged every agency

18 Jan, 2023

New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Ashok Solomon is a 75-year-old businessman who was earlier acquitted in a number of criminal cases lodged against him. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now lodged a case against him at the direction of the Haryana government in connection with a ceiling collapse case in which two women were killed in Gurugram last year.

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