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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
3/3/1871Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
9/20/1996Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress.
3/24/1981Bombay beat Delhi by an innings and 46 runs to win the Ranji Trophy.
6/13/2000Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
8/22/1993Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
11/15/1991Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.