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The Hindu Special Correspondent MUMBAI: Shamim Modi, assistant professor with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), who was attacked by a security guard in her apartment on July 23, has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court demanding a CBI inquiry into the assault. Speaking to journalists here on Friday, she said: “We are demanding a CBI inquiry because the local police are trying to make an attempted murder case look like a robbery” under Section 397 of the IPC. Ms. Modi, who is a political activist from Madhya Pradesh, recently moved to Vasai in Thane district to take up her job at the TISS. Ms. Modi alleged that the police did not take down her statement properly and in fact deleted some of the specific charges she had levelled against a former Madhya Pradesh Minister and his son. As a political activist and part of the Shramik Adivasi Sanghatana at Beitul in Madhya Pradesh, she and her husband, Anurag, had organised workers in about 64 saw mills in Harda...