In fresh trouble for the controversial ‘godwoman’ Radhe Maa, the state police has issued a summon for her, following a complaint lodged by a local resident Surinder Mittal, accusing her of trying to bribe him, threatening, torturing, seducing, hurting his religious sentiments and also for spreading obscenity and vulgarity.

Mittal who is also a former district president of VHP has even accused Radhe Maa of disturbing him late at night.

Following the complaint was filed, the self-styled godwoman had been asked to join investigation in connection with Mittal’s complaint submitted to Kapurthala SSP Rajinder Singh about 10-days ago, cops said. A special police messenger carried the notice to Mumbai and served it on Saturday.

The Punjab Police also said that if Radhe Maa does not respond within ten days, she will be sent summons again.

Furthermore, in the complaint, Mittal had also demanded registration of a case against Radhe Maa’s sister Rajjo Maasi, her daughter-in-law Megha, her close associate Ritu Sareen also called as Chhotti Maa and her follower, Mumbai-based Sanjeev Gupta, they said.

Mittal had submitted recordings of his telephonic conversations with Radhe Maa and her sister in April last and printouts of WhatsApp messages from their mobile phones and that of her daughter-in-law.

He further alleged that he was offered money and when he rejected them and he started getting threats.

He claimed she was “falsely claiming herself as incarnation of goddess” and was hurting religious sentiments and spreading obscenity.

The SSP had marked the complaint to Phagwara police, which, after perusing it, sent a ‘parwana'(notice) to her through a special messenger to Mumbai, they said.

When contacted, Phagwara DSP Manpreet Singh Dhillon confirmed it.

He, however, clarified that only a notice was served.

“No summons were sent to her and no case was yet registered against her. She has only been asked to join the investigations,” said Dhillon.

Recently, the self-proclaimed ‘godwoman’ who is also accused in a dowry harassment case, and known for her lavish lifestyle and high-profile ‘devotees’, stirred a controversy after several objectionable pictures of her surfaced in the media.

Around nine lakh powerlooms in Bhiwandi will go on strike from today, to press for their demands including ban on import of clothes from China.

The Bhiwandi Power loom Association will also send one lakh postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw his attention towards the crises in the sector.

They are protesting against hike in power tariff, obstruction in their work by yarn producers and are asking for permission to export their cloth.

Bhiwandi Powerloom Association spokesperson Sharadram Sejpal said that around nine lakh powerlooms will go on strike from tomorrow.

He alleged that hike in power tariff has always been ignored by the government and that yarn producers are exploiting powerloom owners.

“Yarn traders have a strong association and they use their might to change the price of yarn everyday. It affects the production cost of our cloth,” Sejpal said.

“There is a slight margin of profit in cloth production since China has captured the Indian market, and in such a situation a difference of Rs. 10 affects us a lot,” he added.

Sejpal demanded that there should be a ban on import of Chinese clothes as they are cheaper than Indian clothes.

“Production cost of cloth depends upon labour charges, power charges and yarn prices. Ultimately, rate of cloth production in India is costlier than that of China,” Sejpal said.

“We will send one lakh postcards to the PM and will demand that the government impose heavy import duty on Chinese clothes to protect the domestic sector,” Sejpal said.

In 2012, same thing was done with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, against Local Body Tax, he added.

A few powerloom owners have decided to keep their looms open as they have already lost Rs. 150 crore per day since last Monday.

A micro sculpture artist Sachin Sanghe has carved the face of megastar Amitabh Bachchan on a pencil lead. The actor says he is humbled by the artistic tribute.

The sculpture got its actual form after eight hours of hard work and dedication.

“Dear sir, a portrait sculpture on pencil lead for you! Eight hours of effort! Hope you like it,” Sanghe, who also indulges in chalk carvings, shared on Twitter with an image of the sculpture.

Impressed by the artist and his work, the 72-year-old actor was in awe with the intricate detailing and thanked Sanghe for the “amazing” work.

“This is amazing! Thank you so much,” Big B tweeted.

As onion prices hit the roof, robbers targeted a shop in suburban Mumbai and fled with 700 kg of kitchen staple worth about Rs. 50,000, leaving the shocked owner in tears.

Fourteen sacks of onion were stolen from a shop of 55-year-old vegetable vendor Anant Naik at Prateeksha Nagar in Wadala apparently between Friday night and Saturday morning, police said.

“The sacks containing about 700 kgs of onions got stolen,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection) Dhananjay Kulkarni said.

“Naik had covered his stock of onions at around 9.30pm on Friday and left for home. When he returned on Saturday morning, 700 kg of onions kept in 14 sacks were missing,” he told the police.

The stolen onion stock was estimated to be worth Rs 50,000, police said.

A case has been registered in this regard under IPC section 379 (theft) at Wadala TT police station, they added.

The wholesale onion prices yesterday touched Rs. 57 per kg at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, Asia’s biggest onion market, raising the possibility of further spike in retail prices in most parts of the country adding to consumers’ woes.

In the price-sensitive Delhi market and some other parts of the country, retail onion prices have already gone up to Rs. 80 per kg depending on the quality of the crop.

In spite of several government measures, the prices of onion have increased unabated both in the wholesale and retail markets in the last few weeks due to tight supply following shortfall in domestic output.

Also, the likely fall in this year’s kharif (summer) crop due to deficit rainfall has further added fuel to the price rise.