A 41-year-old businessman was allegedly shot at by two robbers who snatched his bag containing Rs 25,000 in suburban Kandivli.
The incident took place at around 2.40 PM in Shankar Lane of the western suburb when the unidentified assailants, in their 20’s, shot at Dakshesh Shah who was carrying the bag containing money, said Kandivli police station senior inspector Mukund Pawar.
Shah was rushed to Shatabdi Hospital where he is being treated for injuries to his finger and thigh and is currently out of danger, said DCP (Zone XI) Vikram Deshmane.
Police suspect an insider’s role in the incident and are questioning the office staff of Shah as the robbers knew that the victim was carrying cash.
The crime branch of Mumbai police arrested a 37-year-old history-sheeter, wanted for a police officer’s death in 2002 among other things.
Rafiq Sheikh alias Raju was arrested from Dharavi area by a team led by inspector M Desai, said Shridhar Hanchate, senior inspector of Unit 9 of the crime branch.
In 2002, Raju and his associate Mohammad Sheikh alias Chhotu allegedly fired on policemen from Pantnagar police station during a chase. One of the police officers was hit and later died.
Chhotu was arrested a few years later, put on a trial and sentenced to life.
After receiving a tip-off that Raju had come to Dharavi to meet a friend, the police arrested him today, said inspector Hanchate.
Raju had half a dozen robbery cases registered against him in the city, said police.
Incidentally, his brother ‘Nanhe’ is a veteran police informer, officials said.
Underworld don Chhota Rajan, who was arrested in the Indonesian town of Bali last month, will soon be brought to the city, Mumbai Police Commissioner Javed Ahmed said.
“Rajan will be brought to Mumbai soon. The murder of Jyotirmoy Dey alias J Dey will be given priority after Rajan is brought to the city,” Ahmed told reporters at the launch of a mobile application for the safety of women journalists in the city.
The gangster’s interrogation would also reveal answers to few unanswered questions, the Police Commissioner said.
J Dey, a journalist with a local tabloid, was shot dead by motorcycle-borne sharpshooters on June 11, 2011. He had done many reports on underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan.
The 55-year-old underworld don was arrested in the popular tourist town of Bali on his arrival from Australia on October 25, on the basis of a Red Corner Notice from Interpol and following a tip off by Australian authorities to the police in Indonesia.
Mumbai Police has nearly 70 cases registered against Rajan, including 20 of murder, four cases under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, one under Prevention of Terrorism Act and over 20 cases under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
Delhi Police has six cases registered against Rajan, who was a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim at one point, but split before the 1993 Mumbai blasts were conspired.
Meanwhile, talking about the app, Ahmed said, “Security of women and safety of senior citizens will be the priority of the police.”
Mumbai Press Club and Zicom Electronic Security Systems have join hands to make women journalists safe by offering a ‘Personal Security Guard’ called ‘Ziman’.
A day after a Pawan Hans chopper crashed into the Bombay high while carrying out night landing practice on an oil rig, one door of the helicopter has been sighted in the sea.
The last known position of the helicopter was recorded as 82 nautical miles west of Mumbai. The two pilots present in the chopper have been reported missing.
A full scale search and rescue operation has been launched by the Indian Navy. A Coast Guard ship and a Dornier aircraft have also joined the search ops along with Destroyer INS Mumbai and two ISVs.
Bihar has voted in its toughest political battle and the results are set to be declared on November 8. The parties went all out with months of electioneering to reach out to the remotest of voters across the state. While there were many stakeholders, the battle was centred around two faces – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
However, as to who will form the government in Bihar, or whether the state will have a hung Assembly, will be known only on Sunday (November 8) when the votes will be counted.
Lalu Prasad says even if RJD gets more seats than JD(U), Nitish Kumar will be the Bihar Chief Minister.
Addressing a press conference, RJD chief Lalu Prasad says the BJP tried to polarise the state in the run-up to elections. “Narendra Modi ne jo Bihariyon ko gaali dia, aur mujhe ‘shaitan’ kaha, uska logon ne serious notice lia,” says Lalu.
“Our leader is Narendra Modi and he will campaign for us everywhere. We will win some and lose some. We are winning in Bihar,” said the BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
The BJP, which hopes to unseat the Nitish Kumar government, assesses that a higher voter turnout means a vote for change.
The Nitish Kumar camp contends that a higher voter turnout means that people want to ensure the BJP is kept away. It also claims that Bihar’s women firmly back Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
The BJP projected no one as chief minister and its campaign was fronted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who addressed over 30 rallies in the state. The party has tied up with three regional parties.
Winning Bihar is crucial for the BJP, which needs to boost its numbers in the Rajya Sabha or Upper House of Parliament, the members of which are elected by legislators in states. The Narendra Modi government is in a minority in the Rajya Sabha and has found it tough to push through key reforms.
The results of the News 24-Today’s Chanakya exit poll is out and it has predicted a resounding win for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance:
NDA: 155 (+-11)
JD(U)+: 83 (+-9)
Others: 5 (+-3)
Results of two more exit polls are out:
News Nation:
NDA: 115-119
JD(U)+: 120-124
Others: 3-5
CNX/News X exit poll:
NDA: 90-100
JD(U)+: 130-140
Others: 13-23
The consolidated results of ABP-Nielsen exit poll are now out and Grand Alliance is ahead:
The controversy around returning of National Awards against the growing intolerance in the country has found veteran filmmakers Kundan Shah and Saeed Mirza joining the bandwagon.
As many as 24 filmmakers have returned the glorious National Award until now.
Kundan Shah, Arundhati Roy, Virendra Saini, Saeed Mirza, Ranjan Palit, Tapan Bose, Shriprakash, Sanjay Kak, Pradip Krishen, Tarun Bhartiya, Amitabh Chakraborty, Madhushree Dutta, anwar Jamal, Ajay Raina, Irene Dhar Malik, PM Satheesh, Satya Rai Nagpaul, Manoj Lobo, Rafeeq Ellias, Sudheer Palsane, Vivek Sachidanand, Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti, Dr. Manoj Nitharwal and Abhimanyu Dange are the filmmakers who returned the top honour.
More than 40 writers and artists and 10 filmmakers had earlier returned the top awards to register their protest.
The campaign began after the mob killing of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri over rumours that he had eaten beef.
The Dadri lynching and the murders of rationalists were cited as examples of rising intolerance in India.
Saeed Akhtar Mirza, who has won three national awards (Best Film on Family Welfare forMohan Joshi Hazir Ho! in 1984, Best Direction and Best Screenplay for Naseem in 1996), said this is the time for the film fraternity to come together for a cause, adding “if not now, then when?”
Arundhati Roy in her article in The Indian Express said “intolerance” is rather a wrong word to use for violence such as “lynching, shooting, burning and mass murder of fellow human beings”.
Roy returned the national award she won for Best Screenplay in 1989 for the film In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones. In 2005, she was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi honour which she turned down.
In the article, the Booker winner expressed her pride at being able to participate in the “political movement” that some writers, filmmakers and academics have initiated against “a kind of ideological viciousness” gripping the country.
Adding to that, Roy writes: “I believe what artists and intellectuals are doing right now is unprecedented, and does not have a historical parallel. It is politics by other means.”
After ruling out making “wholesale changes” in the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judiciary, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought public opinion on improvement in the existing system.
The apex court invited suggestions from public to be given on the website of Ministry of Law & Justice till November 13.
An apex court constitution bench headed by Justice AS Khehar said that all the suggestions should reach the ministry of law and justice till 5 pm on November 13, which in turn will forward them to senior counsel Arvind Dattar and Additional Solicitor General Pinki Anand to collate them.
All the suggestions will be limited on the point of transparency in the working of the collegium, eligibility criteria for the selection of judges, setting up of a permanent secretariat of the collegium and the procedure for entertaining the complaints in respect of the candidates being considered for judgeship.
With 70 per cent increase in cases of cyber crime, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said security experts have to be vigilant against attempts at online radicalisation of Indian youth.
Inaugurating an information security conference — ‘Ground Zero Summit-2015’, the Home Minister said ‘cyber terrorism’ is a big danger in the world along with cyber crime.
“Today, due to technology and internet, a person living in a remote area can have access to such information by which he can indulge in an act of terror, despite not being associated with any terror group.
“Such forces are also active in the cyber space which work in the direction of radicalisation of youth. Cyber security experts need to be alert specially towards the online radicalisation,” he said.
The Home Minister said cyber world is the fifth dimension of security along with the earlier dimensions of security i.e. land, air, water and space.
Singh said crimes related to cyber world can be multi- layered, multi-locational, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-legal, that’s why it is difficult to investigate and reach to the criminal.
He also expressed his concern over the increasing rate of cyber crime and related cases in the country.
“The cases related to cyber crime have increased by 70 per cent in the year 2014 as compared to 2013. There was an increase of about 64 per cent in 2013 as compared 2012,” he said.
The Home Ministry had recently said a Rs. 400 crore cybercrime control hub, to be called ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ (IC4), will be set up to check cyber crime, including child pornography and online abuse, as per the recommendations of the committee.
One of the priorities of IC4 will be to check attempts by international gangs to penetrate Indian government’s official communication network and hack them.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the authorities to put West Bengal cabinet minister Madan Mitra, accused in the multi-crore rupee Saradha chit fund scam, under house arrest till November 17.
According to reports, the order was passed by the division bench comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Mir Dara Sheko in response to a petition filed by the CBI seeking cancellation of bail given to Mitra.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is currently probing the multi-crore rupee Saradha scam case.
“The fact that the sessions judge was in a haste to grant bail, this case will be heard by a regular bench on November 17, till then he will remain under house arrest,” said Bagchi.
Bagchi further added that he will have to go back to his residence after being released from the hospital. He will only come out of the residence for any medical emergencies or interrogation.
Mitra was granted bail by the Alipore Sessions Court on October 31. The court directed both the parties – CBI and Mitra’s counsel to appear on November 17 before a regular bench.
Bihar has voted in its toughest political battle and the results are set to be declared on November 8. The parties went all out with months of electioneering to reach out to the remotest of voters across the state. While there were many stakeholders, the battle was centred around two faces – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.