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Historical Event on 3/17/1997

A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
5/29/1936Gandhi's eldest son creates a controversy as he converts to the Muslim faith.
12/13/2000Vijay Samuel Hazare, former Indian cricket captain, becomes the first recipient of the 'Castrol Lifetime Achievement award'.
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
2/7/1856Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule.
12/17/1972New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.
1/1/1972Indian states abolished the previous rulers of Privy purses and privileges.
3/9/1902Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born.
12/3/1991Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .