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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
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
3/27/1878Britishers sent Indian soldiers to Malta considering that the Russian would attack.
6/12/1997Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354).
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
12/27/1988The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
10/12/1921Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.
7/21/1977K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
7/21/1977Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.