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Varun Gandhi charged

Authorities ordered criminal charges filed against the great-grandson of India's first prime minister yesterday after footage emerged of him comparing a rival Muslim politician to Osama Bin Laden and threatening to cut the throats of Muslims during a political rally. Varun Gandhi, 29, descendant of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, a founding father of India's secular democracy, however, denied making the comments, saying the footage had been tampered with.