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Historical Event on 10/31/2000

The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/2000Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India.
8/16/1946Hindus and Muslims riot in Calcutta. 90 people lost their lives and other 900 were hurt. The Muslim League observed a ""Direct Action Day"" and announced its withdrawal of support from all plans.
5/29/1915Sita Ram Surajmal Jajoo, social reformer and politician, was born at Neemuch Cantt, M.P.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
6/16/1997K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election.
7/2/1950Yusuf Meharali, socialist leader, died.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
6/23/1894Edward VIII, king of Great Brit/N-Ireland and emperor of India (1936), was born.