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row over capital punishment to Memon

Agency | Hyderabad

Triggering controver-sy over capital punish-ment to Yakub Memon in Mumbai blasts case, AIMIM president Asa-duddin Owaisi today sought to know whether the perpetrators of dem-olition of disputed struc-ture in Ayodhya, com-munal riots of Mumbai and Gujarat and other such sensational cas-es would get a similar punishment. “Why have not perpetrators of dem-olition of Babri Mas-jid been convicted and will they also be given capital punishment as that is the original sin?” the Hyderabad MP said while addressing a gath-ering here.

Minor girl gangraped in Jharkhand

Agency | Pakur

A minor tribal girl was allegedly gangraped in Pakur district today. Sub-Divisional Police Officer Kishore Kaushal said three persons gan-graped the minor at Ma-yurtola locality in the district. The girl’s family later lodged a complaint against the three who are absconding, he said, adding, the girl was sent to hospital for medical examination.

Rohit Khandelwal declared Mr India

2015Agency | Mumbai

The hunt for India’s most desirable man by country’s oldest and most prestigious pageant for men came to its end with Rohit Khandewal from Hyderabad being announced Provogue Personal Care Mr India 2015. The Mr India 2015 winners were announced after multi-city auditions that received an over-whelming response from over 10 thousand partici-pants across the country. This year the pageant comprised of 4 city au-ditions across 4 zones in the country, which culminated into a gala final round of auditions, and gave wings to larg-er-than-life aspiration of millions of young men out to redefine their des-tiny.

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Agency | Mumbai

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the sole death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, today moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of execution of his death sentence scheduled for July 30. Memon, in his petition said that all legal remedies have not been exhausted and he has also approached the Maharastra Governor with a plea for mercy. He had filed the mercy plea before the Governor im-mediately after his cu-rative petition was dis-missed by the apex court on Tuesday. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu had on July 21 rejected

Agency | New Delhi

Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh told Parliament on Friday farmers were committing suicide over reasons such as love affairs, dowry and impotence apart from fi-nancial crisis, handing the Opposition fresh am-munition to attack a gov-ernment already facing the heat over its land and agrarian policies. Singh was responding to a law-maker who sought an ex-planation on more than 1,400 farmer suicides in the country since last year, with financial debt, long droughts, poor yields, and unsea-sonable rains battering the agricultural com-munity. “According to the National Crime Re-cords Bureau, causes of (farmer) suicides in-clude family problems, illness, drugs...dowry, love affairs and impo-tency,” said the minis-ter’s “unstarred” reply in the Rajya Sabha. An “unstarred” reply refers to a written statement the government must provide in response to any questions asked by MPs.Singh’s statement came just months af-ter party colleague and Haryana agriculture minister OP Dhankar called farmers commit-ting suicide “cowards”.

Agency | Mumbai

Social activist Teesta Se-talvad, accused of em-bezzling funds meant for victims of the Gulberg Housing Society, to-day rebutted the charges made by Gujarat Police that she and her husband had misappropriated the funds for personal ex-penses. The statement by Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand, who are trustees of the two NGOs in question, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Sabrang Trust, issued here said the funds raised for the construction of a memo-rial at Gulberg Society massacre site were still lying unutilised. “Since we, Sabrang Trust only

managed to raise Rs 4.6 lakh, we had to inform the Society (members of Gulberg society) that the Memorial project was not feasible,” the statement said. “No con-tract was ever signed, no property or deed ever changed hands, no rent was promised nor mon-ies changed hands. The Rs 4.6 lakh donated by individuals (all Indi-ans, including one NRI) are still unutilised,” it claimed. The statement was issued by Setalvad after Gujarat police filed an affidavit in the Su-preme Court. Opposing the the anticipatory bail plea of Setalvad in the apext court, the state po-lice had alleged that the duo had misappropriat-

Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon moves SC to seek stay on his execution

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Memon’s plea saying that the grounds raised by him does not fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002 in deciding the curative petition, the last judicial remedy available to an aggrieved person. Memon, in his plea, had claimed he was suffering from schizophrenia since 1996 and remained be-hind the bars for nearly 20 years. He had sought

commutation of death penalty contending that a convict cannot be award-ed life term and the ex-treme penalty simulta-neously for the same offence. The apex court on April 9 this year had dismissed Memon’s pe-tition seeking review of his death sentence which was upheld on March 21, 2013. Memon’s review petition was heard by a three-judge bench in an

open court in pursuance of a Constitution bench verdict that the prac-tice of deciding review pleas in chambers be done away with, in cases where death penalty has been awarded. The apex court, on June 2, 2014, had stayed the execution of Memon and referred his plea to a Constitution bench as to whether re-view petitions in death penalty cases be heard in an open court or in cham-bers. Memon had sought review of the March 21, 2013 verdict of the apex court upholding his death penalty in the case relating to 13 coordinat-ed bomb blasts in Mum-bai, killing 257 persons and injuring over 700 on March 12, 1993.

Teesta Setalvad rebuts Gujarat police’s charge of funds misappropriation“Tessta Vs the Home Ministry”

The statement was issued by Setalvad after Gujarat police filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court

No arresting Tessta until Aug 10 : HC

ed funds that was meant for building a museum at Gulberg Society mas-sacre site, for personal expenses ranging from wine, ear-buds to expen-sive mobile phone. In the affidavit, the police had said that Setalvad

and Anand as trustees of the two trusts — Sa-brang Trust and Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP) — have by “di-verse methods” allegedly “misappropriated funds of charity and converted to their own use funds

ment for rehabilitation of riot victims”. Refuting the allegations, the activ-ist today said CJP raised money for providing le-gal aid to victims and its record in this respect is “unprecedented” in In-dia. “Witness protection

and probity during the trial despite hostile re-gimes have ensured the convictions of 120 per-sons,” their statement said. “All payments to Teesta or Javed were strictly in accordance with the budgets pro-posed to and accepted by Ford Foundation, UN-VFVT (United Nations Voluntarily Fund for Vic-tims of Torture), CRY,” the statement said on Gujarat Police’s claims that salaries of Setalvad and her husband started increasing exponentially every year. The Gujarat Police had alleged that 45 per cent of total funds re-ceived by Sabrang Trust between 2008 and 2013 have gone to Setalvad

and her husband either di-rectly or through Sabrang Communication Pvt Ltd (SCPPL), which was ful-ly owned by them. Refut-ing the charge, the state-ment said, “All payments by CJP and ST (Sabrang Trust) towards reimburse-ments for shared expens-es were as per resolutions passed from time to time by their respective trust-ees.” “Teesta and Javed recused themselves from the decisions taken in all such instances,” the state-ment added. “Sabrang Communication made no profit from the expenses sharing arrangement and Teesta and Javed were not paid even a rupee out of such reimburse-ments,” it claimed.

Agriculture minister lists impotency as reason for farmer suicides

“Any farmer commit-ting suicide is running away from his responsi-bilities, leaving behind his burden on his inno-cent wife and children,” Dhankar had said. “Such people are cowards. No government can stand by them.” Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who was in Andhra Pradesh as part of a nationwide cam-paign to court voters in the backwoods amid

growing rural resent-ment over the Centre’s proposed land reforms, advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ask his ministers to visit the houses of farmers to “see what is going on”.Falling rural wages and poor rains for a second straight year have stoked a crisis in many states as data show farm income rose only 0.2% in 2014-15 compared to a 3.7% rise in the previous year.

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DAYLieutenant emperor ‘Jung’ has slammed CM

Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has slammed chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying his open let-ter’s reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “inappropriate” and “deeply disappointing”. “I must say that the tone of your letter leaves me deeply disappointed. Such inappropriate references vis-a-vis the Prime Minister do not reflect well on the chief minister of a Union Territory,” Jung said in a letter to the chief minister. “Your letter, being in public domain, leads to unsavoury and avoid-able comments not just within the country, but also overseas. I speak with a concern about national honour and pride,” he said. Jung was responding to Kejriwal’s letter on Thursday in which the Aam Aadmi Party chief had alleged the LG was working at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to weaken the Delhi government. “The reality is the LG is not doing this on his own. He is doing all this at the instance of the PM. Even the home ministry is increasingly become helpless before the prime minister’s office,” Kejriwal had said. The Kejriw-al-led AAP flattened the opposition in the Febru-ary polls but has been embroiled in a turf war with Jung after he appointed several senior bureaucrats against the wishes of the chief minister and over-ruled many Delhi government picks. The latest spat between the two men has been over appointment of AAP leader Swati Maliwal appointment as chief of the Delhi Commission for Women. With yet an-other letter to the Delhi government on Wednes-day, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has sparked one more confrontation with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The pretext this time is the appointment of the chairperson of the mostly ineffectual Delhi Commission for Women. Two days after the gov-ernment appointed Swati Maliwal to the post, the lieutenant governor annulled the appointment cit-ing a violation of the rules. This time, he has also — outrageously — asserted that he was “the gov-ernment of Delhi”. As in all the earlier instances — transfer postings in the Delhi bureaucracy, the appointment of the Delhi home secretary and of the Anti-Corruption Branch chief — Jung’s decision has given the Aam Aadmi Party an excuse to shift from governance to agitation, something it is far more adept at. The lieutenant governor has clearly overstepped his brief in discharging his duties as the administrator of the National Capital Territory of Delhi and continues to do so. He is bringing into disrepute not only his own office but also the Union government and specifically the ministry of home affairs under whose supervision he functions. Jung is among the few Congress-appointed governors who were not asked to go by the Narendra Modi government when it took charge.

“Those who question Yakub Memon death penalty can go to Pakistan, I think those who cannot respect this nation, the national flag, Constitution, & the judiciary such people do not have the right to live in India.”

- BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj saying those who do not respect judiciary can go to Pakistan.

Agency | New Delhi

The Dark Horse hitmaker waded into a war of words between her long-time ri-val and rapper Nicki Minaj over the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) nominations and in a thin-ly-veiled attack suggested Swift, 25, is a hypocrite, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The 30-year-old shared her thoughts on the dis-pute on micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday, writing: “Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women ar-gument about as one un-measurably capitalises on the take down of a wom-an...” Shortly afterwards, Minaj, 32, favourited the tweet. The brunette beauty and Swift have been em-broiled in a feud, which is believed to have inspired the latter’s latest track Bad blood, for some time. The spat between Swift and Minaj erupted on after the hip hop star bemoaned being nominated for just

three VMAs, with her An-aconda video being over-looked for the top prize, Video of the Year. “When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination,” she tweeted. “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year. “I’m not al-ways confident. Just tired. Black women influence pop culture so much but are rarely rewarded for it (sic),” she further added. But Swift - who received nine nominations in total - felt the tweets were aimed at her and hit back saying she has loved and support-ed Minaj. “I’ve done nothing but love & support you.

It’s un-

Agency | New Delhi

It seems like that this is doppelganger week. Af-ter Virat Kohli’s Pakistani lookalike started to do the rounds on the internet, we now have a desi version of the Captain Jack Spar-row, the swashbuckling, effeminate pirate played by Johnny Depp. While Jack Sparrow earned a living by looting and pil-laging (though we didn’t see him doing too much of that in the movies), his doppelganger is a rickshaw-puller in New Delhi. The Jack Sparrow

lookalike was spotted by Meynell Arora who put up the picture on her timeline. Captain Jack Sparrow, played by John-ny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was actually supposed to be a side character; while the main focus was on William Turner and Eliza-beth Swan. In fact, studio bosses were very skep-tical about Depp’s inter-pretation of the character who thought he looked ‘drunk and gay’. But Depp persisted, which left us with his iconic portrayal though it seems

Agency | New Delhi

Director Kabir Khan is certainly living the good life. After blowing apart most box-office records with Bajrangi Bhaijaan, he surprised his fans by sharing the first look of his next movie Phan-tom. The movie is based on the book titled Mum-bai Avenger by Hussain Zaidi who has works in-clude other crime thrillers like Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia, Mafia Queens of

Mumbai, Black Friday, and My Name is Abu Salem. He released the first posters of his new movie on Twitter which shows the movie’s pro-tagonists blindfolded and bruised. Interestingly, the colour of the blindfold is same as the Indian na-tional flag. Phantom was initially scheduled to re-lease in October 2014 but has been pushed back to make way for Akshay Kumar’s Baby which also had a similar premise.

Agency | New Delhi

Veteran filmmaker Da-vid Dhawan’s younger son Varun is all gung-ho about his upcoming ven-ture titled ‘Dishoom’. The film is being helmed by his elder brother Rohit and is being produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. Var-un took to Twitter and

shared the first look of his film. The film stars John Abrham, Jacqueline Fer-nandez in the lead besides Varun. It is for the first time that these three ac-tors will be seen together in a film. ‘Dishoom’ is an action-adventure film, which also stars Akshaye Khanna in a pivotal role.

Agency | Mumbai

Actress Athiya Shetty, who is all set to make her Bollywood debut with Nikhil Advani’s direc-torial ‘Hero’, says she is feeling “blessed” with the response to the film’s trailer. “I’m super excit-ed. Touch wood. I feel blessed that we’ve gotten such good reviews. I hope all of you enjoy the mov-ie. And I feel very happy that so far we (her and Sooraj) have been accept-ed,” Athiya said. Daugh-ter of actor Suniel Shetty,

Athiya made one of her first public appearances on a fashion platform at the Vogue Beauty Awards 2015. About the numer-ous compliments she re-ceived for he look in the film, the young actress said: “The compliments are mostly that it (film) looks young and I look fresh. And that it looks entertaining so hope-fully that’s what comes across”. Athiya said she admired Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s beauty and style.

Katy Perry brands Taylor Swift a hypocrite?

like you to pit women against each other. Maybe

one of the men took your slot.” Minaj then accused Swift of missing the point of her argument, but the duo eventually reconciled their differences.

Why is Captain Jack Sparrow pulling a rickshaw in New Delhi?

like Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth movie of

the franchise will be his last outing.

Kabir Khan’s Phantom poster: Why are Katrina Kaif and Saif Ali Khan blindfolded?

First look: Varun Dhawan in ‘Dishoom’!

Athiya Shetty feels ‘blessed’ with ‘Hero’ response

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Agency | New Delhi

Xiaomi forayed into the Indian market on July 22 last year and is celebrating its anniversary with week-long deals. Yesterday, the company announced a new variant of Mi 4i in the country, and today Mi 4 gets a price cut. On its Twitter account, Xiaomi India announced that Mi 4’s 64GB variant will be available for Rs 17,999 for 24 hours, meaning a price cut of Rs 2,000. Flipkart

as well as Xiaomi India’s website are currently run-ning this offer. On the oth-er hand, the 64GB variant of Mi 4 is not available on Amazon India and Snap-deal, which are also Xiao-mi’s retail partners in the country. Along with the price cut, Flipkart is run-ning an exchange offer in the 64GB Mi 4, offering discounts up to Rs 5,000. This brings down the price of the smartphone to Rs 12,999.

Agency | New Delhi

Vodafone India has start-ed fourth generation (4G) network trials in selected areas, the com-pany said in New Delhi on Friday. “We are now trialling 4G services across selected areas,” the company said. In India, Bharti Airtel has been expanding its 4G footprint. Reliance Jio Infocomm is expected to come up with its 4G offer by 2015-end and Idea Cellular is likely

to launch 4G services in select locations in 2016. The statement said Vodafone Group has 24.1 million 4G custom-ers across 18 markets and 4G accounts for 35 percent of data traffic in European markets. “Our emerging markets have maintained their strong momentum and more of our European businesses are returning to growth, as customer demand for 4G and data takes off,” Vittorio Colao, group chief executive said

Agency | New Delhi

a stinging criticism, for-mer India captain Sunil Gavaskar today said that young left-arm spinner Axar Patel was not Test cricket material and was at best “a roller of the ball” who was very much predictable. Ga-vaskar said that 21-year-old spinner was “not the next big thing of Indian cricket” and could not be considered as a special-ist spinner in Test crick-et because he does not turn the ball. “No, Axar Patel is not an alterna-tive spinner India should be looking for. He just rolls the ball, he does not have the flight and his deliveries are very much predictable. He does not turn the ball unless the pitch is favourable. He is slightly slower than medium pace,” Gavaskar said when asked whether the youngster could be

a potential Test spinner who can do well for the country. “Yes, Ashwin, Harbhajan, Amit Mishra and Karn Sharma are the spinners India can look for but certainly not Axar Patel,” Gavaskar. as he analysed India’s Test team for the tour of Sri Lanka. Patel has played 18 ODIs and two T20 In-ternationals after making his international debut last year. He has so far taken 23 wickets in his 18 ODIs for an average of 26.60 and economy rate of 4.59. He took two wickets from as many matches in the ODI se-ries against Bangla-desh last month and five scalps in three games in the just-concluded ODI games in Zimbabwe. The former captain rued that India has not produced many quality bowlers in the last few years and he partly blamed the pitch-

es offered in the Ranji Trophy for this. “For the past few years, we have struggled to find qual-ity spinners. One rea-son could be the kind of pitches we are offering for Ranji Trophy match-es. We leave a lot of grass on these Ranji pitches and that does not help quality spinners come through,” he said. “We need to make these pitch-es level playing for both bat and ball. There may be grass but not a lot of grass. Early in the game, the spinners should be able to use their flight and drop the flight on the second and third days. We should prepare pitch-es like this,” he added. Gavaskar described Test captain Virat Kohli’s de-cision to play a India ‘A’ match in Chennai ahead of the Sri Lanka series next month as a right one.

Agency | Mumbai

Mumbai cricket has been going through a tough phase of late and it seems as if their troubles have worsened. After the BCCI announced the sus-pension of batsman Hik-en Shah for an inappro-priate approach to Ranji teammate Pravin Tambe, upcoming talent Sar-faraz Khan has decided to leave Mumbai to play for Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2015-16 domestic season. According to a report in ESPNCricinfo, Sarfaraz’s father Naushad Khan had approached UP Cricket Association secretary - Rajiv Shuk-la - for the switch. “I spoke with Rajiv Shukla [UPCA secretary] about the desire to return to my roots and he welcomed Sarfaraz back with open hands,” Naushad said. “Obviously Shuklaji has

Agency | New Delhi

BMW India has launched the X6 Sports Activity Coupe in a sin-gle trim at Rs 1.15 crore, ex-showroom Delhi and Maharashtra. The BMW X6 xDrive40d M Sport is powered by a 3.0-litre twin-turbo diesel mo-tor that makes 313PS of power and 630Nm of torque. Sending power to all the four wheels via the xDrive system is an 8-speed automat-ic transmission with paddle shifters. BMW claims that the X6 can sprint from 0-100kmph

in 5.8 seconds and can attain a top speed of 240kmph. All this while still delivering a claimed 15.87kmpl. Helping the SUV achieve this mileage is start/stop function, 50:50 weight distribution, brake en-ergy regeneration and lightweight construc-tion. Part of the updates to the new BMW X6 xDrive40d M Sport, as the name suggests, are 19-inch double spoke alloy wheels, new air in-lets on the front and rear apron as well as door sills with the M logo.

Agency | New Delhi

Romina Gupta of Sili-con Valley, California has made it to the US national team for acro-batics gymnastics. The 17-year-old, whose par-ents hail from Kolkata, is now eyeing medals at the 2016 World Cham-pionships in China. According to a leading English daily, Romina is part of a three wom-en gymnast group who perform acrobatic gym-nastics. This includes flips, balancing acts, and dancing. Romina has been a gymnast since last 14 years. Along with her teammates, she has won gold and silver med-als at the 2013, 2014, and 2015 US national championships.Romi-na’s gymnastic journey

Don’t need to watch Yasir Shah’s performance for inspiration, says Amit Mishra

Axar Patel not a Test cricket material: Sunil Gavaskar

10-year-old Indian golfer Shubham Jaglan wins 2nd title in 2 weeks

Vodafone Starts 4G Trials in India

Xiaomi Mi 4 64GB goes cheaper for a day

The new BMW X6 launched in India at Rs 1.15 crore

Agency | New Delhi

Shubham Jaglan, the 10-year-old son of a milkman from rural Haryana, won his second junior world golf title in as many weeks, winning the International Junior Golf Academy’s world stars of junior golf tour-nament in Las Vegas on Thursday to add to his Junior World Golf Cham-pionships title in San Di-ego last week. The prodi-gy brought home a score of 106 in three rounds to win by five strokes, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand’s Pongsa-pak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years catego-ry title at the Angel Park. Jaglan had triumphed by one stroke at the Ju-nior World Golf Cham-

Agency | Chennai

He is expectedly happy to have made a comeback into the Test squad but Amit Mishra said that “he does not need” to look at Pakistan leg-spinner Ya-sir Shah’s recent exploits to get a morale booster ahead of three-Test series against Sri Lanka. “You don’t need someone’s (referring to Yasir Shah) performance to necessari-ly boost your confidence. I am always confident about myself when I bowl well. I am in good form and performing well, so I am confident. But yes, what is important is to adapt to the conditions quickly,” Mishra told me-diapersons on the side-lines of the first ‘unoffi-cial Test’ between India A and Australia A. Mishra however was dismissive about pressures of mak-ing a comeback into the longer format after a gap of four years. He had last played a Test match at the Oval against England

in the disastrous Summer of 2011. “I do not want to put unnecessary burden on myself about good performance. I want to go with a free mind and try to play to my poten-tial. If I have got an op-portunity, I will give my best. I am happy with my comeback. Of course, it’ll b a tough tour. They are good players of spin bowling, so no doubt it is going to be tough. “But will see what can be im-

proved. Will try our best. The selectors have al-ways trusted me and they have given me chance once again it feels good. I have also added variety in my bowling. I have started varying the pace of my deliveries.” Mish-ra termed Kohli as a very good captain. “Virat is a good captain. Whether it is ODIs or anything, he will do a good job. He gives you support and al-ways backs his players.”

pionships after scoring a three-day total of sev-en-under 179 last Sunday at the Welk Resort Foun-tain Course in California. “It’s just a dream come true. It was all my year’s hard work. I am celebrat-ing in a great way. All my friends are congratulat-ing me,” Shubham said. “It was all because of my family’s support, my coach, my school which helped me in the US, that’s why I could speak to you actually and my golf club DGC for giving

me all facilities for play-ing. Especially my dad supported me through my life and it has been a great journey. “I am re-ally happy that Shubham has won his second world title in a row,” Jaglan’s mother Anjali said. For-mer golfer Nonita Lall Qureshi has been training Shubham since he was seven-years old. He was five years old when he started golf, practicing in an agricultural field. He has already won over 100 tournaments.

Another blow for Mumbai cricket: Sarfaraz Khan switches alliance to uP

Indian-origin girl makes it to uS acrobatic gymnastic team

began when she was a toddler. She started with artistic gymnastic. She tried her hand at diving and tracks before get-ting drawn to acrobatic gymnastics. If she wins a medal at the World

Championships, Romina will join the ranks of In-dian-Americans Mohini Bharadwaj (Silver for US in the 2004 Olym-pics), and Stephen Raj Bhavsar (bronze for US in the 2008 Olympics).

clarified that Sarfaraz will have to perform in the selection trials first but he is no stranger to proving himself time and again,” he added. The Mumbai-born player who was bagged by Roy-al Challengers Bangalore for 50 lakh for IPL 8, had impressed with his fear-less performances in the tournament. Last year, Sarfaraz was omitted from the list of probables for the zonal Twenty20 league after he had al-

legedly made an obscene gesture to the selectors during a Cooch Behar Trophy (U-19) game. He was still selected in the squad after issuing an apology but his match fees for the 2014-15 sea-son were withheld. There is a possibility that this might have acted as cat-alyst in Sarfaraz’s deci-sion to make the switch. But Naushad denied that MCA’s move had anything to do with the switch to UP.

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Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

A rally by the Patidar community seeking OBC status and benefits of res-ervation turned violent in Visnagar town of Mehsa-na district on Thursday. Sources said that five journalists and a camera-man from Mehsana were injured. They were taken to Mehsana civil hos-pital for treatment. The protesters attacked the office of BJP MLA Ri-shikesh Patel and pelted stones. Cops resorted to opening fire at the crowd, which vandalised police vans and other vehicles. According to police, the rally which began from Modhera chowk, was supposed to end at the

Correspondent | Surat

In a joint operation, the Ahmedabad and Surat unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) detected Rs 3.5 crore customs duty eva-sion by a Vapi based firm under advance authoriza-tion scheme. Acting on specific intelligence DRI officials found that Yasho Industries Pvt Ltd has been evading customs duty on import of Clove oil by mis-declaring the same as Eugenol and also diverting the clove oil imported duty free under Advance Authorization. The office premises of the

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The upcoming Monsoon session of the Gujarat As-sembly would see bureau-crats following a strict code of conduct, prohib-iting them from wearing bright-coloured clothes, drinking water, munch-ing food or paan masa-la, using cellphones and dozing off, while sitting in the House. According to a recent notification, they are also expected to sit throughout the session for the day without rest-ing one leg over the other or stretching their arms on the armrest. Though similar in intent, the new notification is stricter than the one issued way back in 1996. The 1996 notification had a polite

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The Gujarat government on Thursday upgraded to “Z” category the se-curity cover of a former trial judge in the Naroda Patiya massacre case, a day after she told report-ers that the state was not acting on her demand for increased protection. that former judge Jyots-na Yagnik had received 22 threat letters and had been getting blank calls at her residence after she pronounced the landmark

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Danilimda police on Thursday shot off letters to local hotels and guest-houses asking them not to rent hotels by the hour. Sources said that senior police officials, in a meet-ing, decided to crack down such hotels to stop young boys and girls misusing it. Recently, a college-go-ing girl had been killed by her boyfriend in King Pal-ace Hotel in Ranip after renting a room for a few hours. Even chief minis-ter Anandiben Patel had taken note of the incident and said: “The intention is always doubtful when a hotel room is booked for two to three hours. I request the police to take action against hotels that

permit such wrongdoings on their premises.” Police inspector of Danilimda police station MK Rana said they had issued no-tices to eight hotels and guesthouses in Danilim-da area asking them not to rent hotel rooms on hourly basis. “We have also asked them that if the guests seem to be school or college students and are adamant on booking room citing rules, they should inform the police,” said Rana. Joint commissioner of police, sector-2 Manoj Shashidhar said he had directed his subordinates to launch a drive against such hotels and guest-houses which rent their rooms on hourly basis for wrong purposes. Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

The alleged threat letter received by women cell police officials probing the Asaram and Narayan Sai rape cases is suspect-ed to have been posted from Meghaninagar area of the city. Crime branch officials said the stamp on the back side of the let-ter has “Meghaninagar” written on it. “However for confirmation, we have written to the post master general’s office” said a senior crime branch of-ficial. According to po-lice sources, ACP Kanan Desai and inspector DB Ravia of women police station, were provided personnel security of-ficers, both at their res-idence and in person, after the attacks on wit-nesses of the Asaram and Narayan Sai rape cases. On July 8, an anonymous letter was received at the women police station. “The letter which runs into four to five lines was written in Hindi but read as Gujarati. It stated that ACP Kanan Desai and inspector DB Ravia have harassed many connect-

Sunvilla News | Ahmedabad

Six years after the tri-al commenced and now when it is in its final stages, two persons ac-cused in the 2002 Gul-barg Society massacre case have requested the special trial court to permit them to undergo narco-analysis so they can prove their inno-cence. Narayan Tank alias Channelwalo and Babu Rathod alias Mar-wadi filed an application on Thursday and volun-

teered themselves for either brain-mapping or truth serum tests. Both accused have claimed to have an alibi, during the final arguments that are underway. Special judge P B Desai is like-ly to hear this issue next week. While Channel-walo was arrested by the Supreme Court-ap-pointed SIT, Marwadi came to be arraigned in this case on the basis of testimonies of witnesses during the trial.

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Finally, the city police has swung into action to crack down on the men-ace of gangs operating in eastern parts of the city, especially in areas like Khokhra, Odhav, Amrai-wadi, Ramol, Naroda and Vatva. City police chief Shivanand Jha has asked the cops to take strict ac-tion within seven days. The police action will be imitated under the code name of “Operation Rak-shak”. Jha on Thursday summoned all senior po-lice officials of the city including deputy commis-sioner of police, (crime

branch) Dipen Bhadran and directed them to act against the gangs of east-ern Ahmedabad and also drug dens in Patva Sheri area of the walled city. It is noteworthy that more than nine gangs are operating in some of the areas of eastern Ahmedabad. “The most notorious of them are the Fracture gang, Kanchinda Gang, Madrasi Gang and Sittu gang” said a police official. Senior police officials said the use of the firearm in Odhav in which gunshots were fired on the office of a former member of Fracture gang and the recent incident of

shootout in Patva Sheri of the walled city is a worry-ing factor. Jha said he has asked his subordinates to crack down on gun run-ners who bring firearms from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and sell it in the city. “I have given a deadline of seven days to the police to give me results. Gangs and hooli-gans will not be allowed to have a free hand to cre-ate menace in the city” added Jha. Senior police sources said the cops have also been directed to act against drug mafias oper-ating from the walled city area.

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The Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notice to concerned authorities at the Centre and the state government in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) demanding restric-tion on publication and telecast of false, deceptive advertisements. One Gan-pat Parmar from Visnagar has filed the PIL through advocate Jugal Dave seek-ing restrictions on certain claims made in adver-tisements. The petition argued that companies create false impression about the quality and per-formance of products in order to attract more con-sumers and sell their prod-ucts. The petition says that unethical ways are used to promote products with claims which are not real-istic. The PIL has sought directions to the govern-ments to introduce a mech-anism to filter false claims made in advertisements of beauty and nutrition prod-

ucts. Any new health and nutrition claim has to be approved by a body and the companies should be permitted to run only those approved claims. The PIL has also sought guidelines for the same. The petition-er has sought establish-ment of a committee or board (similar to the film censor board) to will pre-view all advertisements for approval. It has also demanded implementation of a code of conduct for print media and any per-son violating the norms by publishing false and mis-leading ads should be pun-ished. The PIL has sought a ban on cosmetic compa-nies from using special ef-fects and production tech-niques to show the effect of their products because they mislead consumers by exaggerating their ef-fects. There is also a de-mand to prohibit surrogate advertisement of banned products like tobacco and liquor.

Violence in Mehsana at rally seeking quota for Patidars

Did threat letter to women cops probing Asaram came from Meghaninagar?

No phone, bright clothes, water for bureaucrats in Assembly

‘Z’ category security cover for ex-Naroda Patiya judge

DRI detects Rs 3.5 cr duty evasion in Vapi

importer at Mumbai and factory premises at Vapi were searched by DRI officials of Ahmedabad and Surat. The officials recovered several docu-ments during the search. “The evidences gathered by our officials during the searches indicate that the goods were imported by declaring it as Eugenol which contains a mixture of Eugenol and Caryo-phyllene. But the goods were actually clove oil and not Eugenol,” said a DRI official. According to officials, the firm had used this method in order to evade higher payment

of Customs duty which is 36% (for clove oil) in case of imports from Mada-gascar and 26% in case of Imports from Indone-sia.“This firm by adopting this modus has evaded duty to the tune of approx-imately Rs 3.5 crore. Fur-ther investigation in the case is going on,” added official. Advance Authori-sation is a duty exemption scheme which enables duty free import of inputs for export production. Under advance authorisa-tion, exporter can import raw-materials and related inputs under 100% duty exemption schemes.

Mehsana Collector office, where strong security had been set up. The pro-testers first clashed with police when only five persons were allowed to enter the deputy collec-tor’s office to give their application. However the matter was controlled within a few minutes. The rally was part of a series of several demonstrations held by youth of the Pa-

tidar community in the cities of North Gujarat and Rajkot in Saurash-tra, under the aegis of a group called Sardar Patel Sevadal (SPS). The com-munity is considered one of the most prosperous in Gujarat. But President of SPS, Lalbhai Patel, said, “It is a wrong perception that Patidars are wealthy. Thirty per cent of Pa-tidars, despite getting

good marks, do not get admission in prestigious courses.” However, so-ciologist Gaurang Jani raised questions over the group’s demand. “OBC means Socially and Ed-ucationally Backward Class. Patidars are nei-ther socially nor educa-tionally backward…So, either they don’t know what SEBC is, or this is an attempt to mobilise the Patidar community or raise questions over reservation policy (as a whole)… Suppose, Pa-tidars are included in OBC list, then also most of them will not get the benefit as they would be part of creamy layer,” Jani said.

judgment in the Naroda Patiya riots case. Follow-ing the report, the Gujarat government had formed a committee to review

Yagnik’s security. A se-nior officer of the home department confirmed on Thursday that Yagnik’s se-curity had been upgraded from “Y” category to “Z” category. As a designat-ed trial judge in the case, Yagnik had convicted for-mer minister Maya Kod-nani, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and 30 oth-ers. Earlier, Kodnani had been given “Z” category security, which was after her retirement was scaled down to “Y” category.

tone saying, “officers are requested…” and “it is being informed to all”. The one issued on March 18 this year, however, says “it has become nec-essary to draw attention and issue orders…”, and then goes on to warn that not following the order could be serious. “It to be

hereby noted that ramifi-cations could be serious to the officer and the de-partment concerned…” The set of rules has been announced reportedly after officials were seen taking the House “casual-ly”. “During the sixth ses-sion of the 13th Assembly (Budget session in Febru-

ary-March), the Speaker had taken a serious note of certain unacceptable behaviour at officer’s gal-lery in the House,” said a top official from the leg-islative and parliamen-tary affairs department, adding, “There were in-stances where officers were seen using phones and drinking water from bottles. Some even were seen resting casually with hands stretched and rest-ing one leg over the other. Such kind of behaviour is against the decorum of the House. A need was felt to reiterate the code of conduct.”

Rent-by-hour banned in Danilimda hotels after Ranip murder

ed to Asaram and hence will be dealt with” said a crime branch source. The letter was brought to the notice of deputy commis-

sioner of police, crime branch Deepan Bhadran and was then forwarded to the police commission-er’s office.

2 Gulbarg case accused seek narco-analysis

‘Op Rakshak’ to protect citizens in eastern part of city

PIL seeks screening board for misleading ads