Sidhu Moosewala murder case: Punjab police arrested 23 accused till date

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September 11, 2022

With the arrest of the last accused shooter Deepak Mundi along with his two aides from the Indo-Nepal Border in West Bengal on Sunday, the Punjab police arrested the 23rd accused in Sidhu Moosewala murder case.

The police said that the accused were arrested when they were attempting to escape to Nepal. The other two arrested persons have been identified as Kapil Pandit and Rajinder alias Joker.

The operation was carried out jointly by the Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) along with Delhi Police and Central agencies.

“As the Punjab Police arrested the sixth and last shooter in the case, the entire conspiracy, and modus operandi as also the link-ups of these gangsters was revealed,” said the Punjab police.

A team of AGTF led by AIG Gurmeet Chauhan and DSP Bikram Brar brought Mundi and his two aides to Punjab by air on Saturday late night.

“Deepak Mudi, the main assassin, had fired indiscriminately at the Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh aka Sidhu Moosewala who died on May 29th,” Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav said addressing a press meeting.

With these three arrests, the total number of arrests in the Sidhu Moosewala Murder case is 23, while two shooters Manpreet Singh alias Manu Kussa and Jagroop Singh alias Roopa were neutralized during an encounter in Bhakna village of Amritsar.

“After killing Sidhu Moosewala both Mundi and Kapil were staying together and were constantly shifting their locations under the directions of Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar, who is the main conspirator. Mundi and Kapil stayed in states including Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, UP and West Bengal,” DGP Gaurav said.

He informed that Goldy Brar had promised Mundi and Kapil to settle them in Dubai on fake passports. “Both were supposed to receive their fake passports in Nepal or Thailand, and after which they were to fly to Dubai,” he added.

The preliminary interrogation of Kapil Pandit has revealed that he jumped parole in 2021 that he had got to attend the last rites of his mother, and is absconding since then for the murder of a person from his native village Bewad in District Churu, Rajasthan.

DGP further said, “He was approached by Lawrence Bishnoi gang through Sampat Nehra and Goldy Brar to carry out the killing of the Bollywood actor Salman Khan,” said DGP Gaurav Yadav, adding that Kapil along with Sachin Bishnoi and Santosh Yadav was asked to carry out the recce to plan the strategy to kill Salman Khan.”

According to the Punjab Police, Kapil had carried out a recce for several times with the intention to kill Sidhu Moosewala at the behest of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang to avenge the killing of Vicky Middukhera.

Sachin Thapan who has been detained in Azerbaijan, will be extradited to India very soon.

Notably, total 35 people is accused in the Moosewala murder case out of which 23 have been arrested and two have been neutralized. The other four are out of the country and six are still absconding.

Delhi: Woman allegedly hanged herself to death

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September 11, 2022

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A 37-year-old woman allegedly hanged herself to death at Delhi’s Sagar Pur area on September 10.

The PS Sagarpur on September 10, received information regarding the suicide of a woman. The woman was admitted to Bhagat Hospital, Janakpuri, and was declared dead.

On spot inspection by the police, it was found that she had hanged herself from the ceiling fan using a saree.

She was married for 12 years and had a daughter aged 4 years. Her husband works in a factory in Mayapuri.

After further investigation, it was found that the deceased was under depression for the last few years and was a heart patient undergoing treatment.

As to the police, there is a medical history of her treatment and depression. No foul play has been suspected by the police yet. As of now proceedings under U/s 174 CrPC are being carried out by the police and further information on the matter is awaited.

Months ago in Delhi, a 41-year-old man allegedly committed suicide as he was depressed due to a strained relationship with his wife, police confirmed on Thursday.

The deceased’s name was Umesh Dhar Trivedi, who was a resident of Uttam Nagar in Delhi. On Thursday, an officer at the Bindapur Police Station received a PCR call.

Upon reaching the spot, the police saw that the gate had already been opened by the fire tender, who was called by locals.

Further, the decomposed body of Umesh Dhar Trivedi was found hanging from the ceiling fan with a blue dupatta. The body was brought down by cutting the dupatta. A complete inspection of the scene of the crime was conducted by the Crime team of Delhi Police.

After searching the body for further evidence, a four-page suicide note was found. The suicide note claimed that Umesh’s wife had gone to Switzerland with their children.

His wife had a strained relationship with him and therefore she blocked her husband on social media. The relationship with his wife took him into depression which led to his suicide.

Other than the suicide note, a mobile phone and a purse were found in the pocket of the deceased’s half-pants. Proceedings under CrPC 174 had been conducted.

Sharad Pawar re-elected as the President of the National Congress Party

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September 11, 2022

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The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) working committee re-elected Sharad Pawar as the party president for the next four years. All dialogues and political commentary these days are focused on the 2024 national elections. The talk is about Narendra Modi, Sharad Pawar, Yogi Adityanath, Prashant Kishor and Mamata Banerjee’s coalition calculators. But forget 2024, the real year to focus on is 2025.

Pawar is playing his card very calculative since MVA government collapsed in Maharashtra. In his speech, Pawar attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the remission granted to 11 convicts who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for the gang-rape of Bilkis Bano and the killings of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Pawar referred to how Modi had spoken about gender equality and respect for women in his Independence Day speech.

30 months ago, NCP chief Sharad Pawar was the toast of Maharashtra and nation’s non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politics. His effort, at resuscitating his own party and then stitching an unlikely coalition with the Shiv Sena and ally Congress, to keep the BJP out of power was hailed. A new template for the country’s opposition was discovered. So was a new, old leader who could stitch a similar combination and succeed where others had failed—in taking on the BJP.

He pointed to how leaders across the political spectrum like chief ministers and regional satraps like Nitish Kumar (Bihar), K Chandrashekar Rao (Telangana), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav consulted Pawar. In a series of tweets, the veteran politician from Maharashtra juxtaposed the convicts’ release with the Prime Minister’s August 15 speech. He had pointed this out while speaking to reporters in Thane last month.

Addressing the extended working committee of the NCP in Delhi, Pawar alleged that the Modi government was “anti-farmer” and had also “failed” to tackle the issue of unemployment. The veteran leader said that farmers were looking forward to getting a good price for their paddy crop, but the government has imposed a 20 per cent export duty on rice and banned the export of broken rice.

A draft political resolution moved during the meeting called for the unity of like-minded parties to fight against the BJP and its allies. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar met NCP president Sharad Pawar to evolve a consensus among non-BJP parties to forge a political front keeping the 2024 elections in sight. Though the efforts are still in the preliminary stage, the message that came across is that Pawar is playing the role of a catalyst to bring individuals across parties and states to the talking table.

Last week, Sharad Pawar had announced in Maharashtra that he would work to unite non-BJP parties, but he also made it very clear that he would not take any responsibility due to his age. Pawar’s refrain was that the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, failed to usher in the promised “achhe din” in the country. Most of the promises made in 2014 have remained on paper, he lamented. Sharad Pawar sees no benefit in forming government with Shiv Sena as one day it will fall because MLAs of Shiv Sena will find it hard to work with NCP/Congress guys.

Sharad Pawar has friends in all parties and being in opposition doesn’t make any difference for him and Shiv Sena today is run by buffoons like Sanjay Raut who have no knowledge about winning elections. He knows people will get angry if he supports Sena as they have mandated him to sit in opposition. He is a shrewd politician and why would he support a sinking party like Sena which won on Modi wave. He is just watching the show and will let BJP form the govt and will ask his Mlas to abstain during the time of trust vote in the Assembly. He wants smooth relations with Modi so that ED/CBI don’t land at his doors.

Shiv Sena cannot help his party if something happens to Ajit Pawar or any of his party leaders so it’s better for him to stay away from Shiv Sena. NCP is a rural party and its vote bank is intact so by making a government with Sena won’t help him much which is the Mumbai/Konkan party. He knows the repercussions of supporting a lame duck govt like in Karnataka where HDK had to resign due to infighting among MLAs for Minister posts.

He has been in politics for over 50 years and knows pros and cons better than anyone else. Congress will never support Shiv Sena as it would be the biggest Loser nationally. Shiv Sena runs on emotions and doesn’t have any roadmap for economic growth or jobs. All they know is hitting the streets for any issue as they have completely failed in running BMC for decades.

Sharad Pawar is the past master of realpolitik. He has survived catastrophic challenges and has prospered. People say that he is the richest politician in the country and has real estate assets of untold value. In the recent past, he could persuade Uddhav Thackeray to ditch the BJP, the permanent long term ideological partner having a pre-poll alliance to form a government with his party and the Congress. He was not only the architect of the MVA coalition but also its remote control. Uddhav was the front, Pawar was the shadow behind. The going was good and it was not his objective to sabotage this arrangement. But the indirect fall out of this unholy arrangement is erosion of Hindutva ideology of Shiv Sena, that ideology being its identity.

Prakash Javadekar appointed in-charge of Kerala, Vinod Tawde to be in-charge in Bihar

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September 11, 2022

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Mumbai Bharatiya Janata Party’s national general secretary Vinod Tawde’s appointment as in-charge of party affairs in Bihar is seen as an elevation of the leader who was once sidelined in state politics. His Maharashtra colleague and party’s OBC face Pankaja Munde however failed to get any key responsibility in the internal reshuffle the party initiated this week.

While Tawde has been shifted to Bihar from Haryana, Munde, who is national secretary, has been retained as co-in-charge of Madhya Pradesh. Another party leader Prakash Javadekar has been appointed in-charge of Kerala, a year after his ouster from the union cabinet in July last year. Kerala has a new minister in the form of former union minister Prakash Javadekar.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda was appointed in charge of various states and union territories on Friday, including poll-bound states like Tripura and Telangana. Vinod Tawde has been appointed as General Secretary in Bihar, while Harish Dwivedi continues to be the co-incharge. Om Mathur who had been recently appointed to the Parliamentary board has been made in charge of Chhattisgarh. Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb has been given an organisational responsibility and made incharge of Haryana. Vinod Sonkar who was in charge of Tripura, which goes into election next year, has been replaced by former union minister and Noida MP Dr Mahesh Sharma.

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has also been given organisational responsibilities in Punjab and Chandigarh. National General Secretary Tarun Chugh continues to be in charge of Telangana. Bengal has found a new in-charge in the form of Bihar MLC Mangal Pandey whereas Amit Malviya continues to be the co-in charge. General secretary Arun Singh also continues to be in charge of Rajasthan. National general secretary Dilip Saikia has been replaced by Laxmi Kant Bajpai in Jharkhand.

Recently Bajpai was brought to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh and has also been made the chief whip of the party in the Rajya Sabha. The year 2023 will be full of electoral battles in which states like Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland are going to the polls in the first part of the year. The mid-year will be the Karnataka assembly elections.

Mumbai Maritime Board (MMB) constructing the water terminal at Mandwa

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September 11, 2022

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The inland water transport project on the east coast of Mumbai, connecting Ferry Wharf (Bhaucha Dhakka) with Mandwa in Raigad district and Nerul, will soon be started.

The Mumbai Maritime Board (MMB), which will be constructing the water terminal at Mandva, has sent the proposal of construction of the same to the state cabinet sub-committee of infrastructure.

The MBPT, which will be constructing a jetty at Ferry Wharf, has also received clearance for the construction of a jetty from its board. CIDCO, which will be constructing the jetty at Nerul, is preparing the proposal for the construction of a jetty.

MMB has been made the nodal agency for implementing the water transport project on the east and west coasts of Mumbai.

The water transport project along the east coast of Mumbai was earlier with the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), but a few months back, the project was handed over to the Mumbai Maritime Board, by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

As per the plans, the job of developing a terminal for the water transport project was given to individual agencies.

The job of developing the terminal at Nerul has been assigned to CIDCO and MbPT will develop the terminal at Ferry Wharf.

After the construction of the ferry terminals, the private contractors will be invited through a bidding process to look after the operation and maintenance of the services that would start.

It will be the job of the contractor to get the catamarans and Ro-Ro services that will be used to ferry passengers.

Once completed, the water transport project on the East coast of Mumbai will connect Ferry Wharf (Bhaucha Dhakka) to Belapur, Nerul, Vashi and Mandva, thus reducing the pressure of the crowd on the Harbour line trains.

Fake invoice racket of Rs 132 crores busted in Bhiwandi

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September 11, 2022

The anti-evasion unit of CGST probing fake firms issuing invoices to claim input tax credits raided the residential premises of an accused wanted in 8 ongoing investigation cases of GST frauds and seized bogus invoices of Rs 132 crores.

The accused had floated a total of 36 fake GST firms and established a network to pass-on fake Input Tax Credit to shell companies.

Fake invoice racket of Rs 132 crores to avail input tax credit of Rs 23 crores was busted by the CGST Commissionerate, Bhiwandi and a trader arrested for operating fictitious companies.

Acting on specific intelligence, the anti-evasion wing of CGST Bhiwandi Commsissionerate was investigating various fake firms identified as Mectech Steel Trading Private Limited, UGSK Trader, M/s World Enterprises, Rolex Enterprises, HHT Enterprises and Yesh Enterprises with direct between the companies and the accused mastermind.

Based on material evidence gathered during the investigation, the aforesaid accused mastermind was arrested on 09.09.22 under section 69 of the CGST Act, 2017 for contravention of section 132 of the CGST Act, 2017.

The Mount Mary Fair begins today

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September 11, 2022

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set for the Mount Mary Fair, which is also known as the Bandra Fair.

The festival will be celebrated from today till September 18. This year, citizens can watch the festival live on their mobile phones, YouTube, and Twitter as well.

BMC has also erected three LED screens so citizens can watch the religious programmes being conducted within the church.

People from all faiths throng the festival, which has a tradition of over 100 years. Every year, BMC makes arrangements for smooth management.

However, for the last two years, the celebrations were muted due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Since the state government has lifted the restrictions this year, the BMC has predicted that more than one lakh people may visit the fair.

PMLA court orders to move ailing Wadhawan to hospital immediately

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September 11, 2022

A special PMLA court last week ordered a bedridden 69-year-old HDIL promoter Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan, in jail since 2019 in a money laundering case, to be immediately moved to JJ hospital and to be continuously attended to by a ward boy.

Rakesh Kumar has multiple ailments, leaving him unable to take care of himself and wheelchair-bound. Special judge MG Deshpande said no prejudice will be caused to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) if the plea of the accused to move to hospital is allowed.

“On the contrary if the application is rejected, certainly it will leave the applicant at the mercy of the God without acknowledging his rights being an undertrial prisoner. The court cannot become mute spectator and ignore the precarious health of the applicant. Therefore, I am of the opinion that immediate hospitalization of the applicant is necessary from the point of paramount consideration of his health issues, which will be the proper answer for his condition,” the special judge said.

The court said two cops should be deputed. All expenses are to be borne by the accused.

Ganesh Visarjan saw the death of 18 people by drowning

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September 11, 2022

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The final day of Ganesh immersions came with death to as many as 18 people, 14 of them due to drowning, in different incidents across Maharashtra.

Wardha district witnessed the maximum cases of drowning with three people losing their lives in Sawangi, while two others died in a pond in Yavatmal during an idol immersion.

In Ahmednagar district, two persons drowned in separate incidents at Supa and Belvandi, while two died in Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra—one each at Chalisgaon and Jamner.

Ghodegaon and Yavat in Pune district, Lonikand in Satara district, Solapur city and Devli recorded one fatality each on Friday.

Meanwhile, four persons lost their lives in a road accident at Sakkardara area of Nagpur city during idol immersions.

BJP slammed Farooq Abdullah over his “outsider” remark; says it’s an insult of J&K voters

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September 11, 2022

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Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday slammed former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah over his “outsider” remark and said that the latter is insulting Jammu and Kashmir voters by calling them, ‘outsiders.’

After the all-party meeting, Former J-K chief minister and chairman of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) Farooq Abdullah said that they don’t want outsiders to get voting rights in Jammu and Kashmir.

The all-party meeting was called over the proposed inclusion of around 2.5 voters including non-locals in the electoral rolls of Jammu and Kashmir.

Reacting to Abdullah’s statement, BJP National General Secretary and in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir Tarun Chugh said, “After all, who is Farooq Abdullah sahib calling voters as outsiders, he is insulting the people of Jammu and Kashmir by using such language. Explain what you mean by outsiders. According to the Election Commission, every Indian who is above 18 years of age can vote in the province where he lives. So the citizens residing in Jammu and Kashmir who have attained the age of 18 years, they should vote.”

“Is Farooq Abdullah outsider remark is referring to any religion, province or caste. This is incomprehensible and the meaning of the outside party is also not understood. What is the meaning of outside, that outside party will not come to Jammu and Kashmir, what is the meaning of Farooq Abdullah? Has the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Party of Imran Khan come to Jammu and Kashmir or Sharif family come from Pakistan Muslim League, is contesting elections? Farooq sahib should not complicate the problems and create confusion,” said Chugh.

He further said that every political party in the country has the right to contest elections in any corner of the country and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Jan Sangh is in Jammu and Kashmir since the 1950s.

“What are you talking about the new law, no such law has been made there which has not been passed in the Parliament but Farooq Abdullah is trying to create a problem in the Union Territory. But now he should understand that people of Jammu and Kashmir will not act as per his command,” he said.

BJP leader said that Jammu and Kashmir has progressed but Farooq Abdullah is still standing in the politics of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

“Development, trust and connecting citizens with democracy is the agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. More than 21 lakh people have voted for Prime Minister’s development agenda in DDC elections, BDC elections, Panchayat elections, people have voted for Modi’s vision and Modi ji’s vision is succeeding,” he said.

Chugh said that the election rules are in the whole country including Kerala and Delhi, and the rights of citizens which are in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh or any other part of the country are the same for the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir while requesting Farooq Abdullah not to confuse people by his misinformation.

“Not a single vote should be made of a person who is not a citizen, who is not more than 18 years of age and Farooq Abdullah Saheb voter list will be given to all the political parties and there will also be a chance to check the list and if you have any objection you can raise and the Election Commission will take cognizance of it and accept it but do not humiliate the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir by calling them outsiders,” he added.

An all-party meeting was held at the home of Farooq Abdullah in Jammu on Saturday. After the meeting, Farooq Abdullah said that they do not want outsiders to get voting rights in the Union Territory.

“Leaders of all political parties are present today. We do not want outsiders to get voting rights in Jammu and Kashmir. We cannot trust the assurances given by the CEO of J-K. People from different parties have come together and brought different issues because they feel that their rights are being attacked every day with new laws coming. We do not accept parties coming from outside,” he said.