Sunday, September 6, 2009

In a major incident in Vikhroli railway stantion four people got injured due to wall fall down at platforrm number four.

‘Game show’ inside Bhiwandi Ganesh pandal

Pic By PAWS
By Pradeep Gupta

Bhiwandi has the dubious distinction of having a Ganesh pandal inside which animals were confined and treated cruelly. Two cobras were being constantly prodded or smacked with a stick to make them aggressively open their hoods to devotees. Two pigeons with their feet tied were also kept inside the pandal for added effect.

Interestingly, the pandal, Swargiya late Nan Mitra Mandal, belongs to Shiv Sena leader Sainath Pawar.

A snake charmer wearing saffron robes was seated inside torturing the cobras, hitting them on the head to prevent them from curling up in the small basket. This was being done to allow the continuous stream of visitors see the snakes with their hoods open.

The pigeons in the meanwhile, struggled to keep their distance from the cobras.

On being tipped off, the Mumbai based PAWS (Plant & Animals Welfare Society) Mumbai lodged a complaint with the Forest Department and the Thane Police, alleging that a Bhiwandi based Ganesh Mandal was violating the laws pertaining to wild and protected animals laws by illegally keeping two cobras and birds to attract devotees and visitors.

Sunish Subramanian, the PAWS-Mumbai activist who made the complaint said, “On Monday after we got information about the cruel treatment of protected creatures, we went across to Bhiwandi and found devotees inside the pandal taking blessings from a cobra and putting cash offering in a box. The cobra was constantly prodded to say upright. The snake charmer, Dhulanath had brought the cobras from MP. A cobra is protected under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and comes under Schedule – I animals.”

However, the surprising thing is that when the Forest Department officials raided the pandal, they found no animals or birds present. Obviously, the mandal was tipped off by someone from inside the law enforcement department.

When our reporter asked Sainath Pawar about the cobras and the pigeons, he denied any involvement, saying. “We did not call any snake charmer to display the cobras. The man came here uninvited, and sat in our pandal. When our workers saw him they send him out.”

However, when confronted with the photographic evidence provided by the NGO and asked how come he was aware about the man occupying his pandal with the pigeons and the cobras from two full days, Pawar refused to make any comment.

Awrness message sent by CBI, sent Buta Singh son behind bar


By Pradeep Gupta

The awareness message sent by the state Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) across the state over the mobile phones lead to trap Sarobjit Singh alias Sweety Singh in Rs One crore bribe case. Ramrao Patil the municipal contractor and the complainant in the bribe case had also received the same message on July 18 from the ACB and the same he called the number and registered his case with the ACB.

According to the ACB officials, after getting the demand of Rs three crore from Sweety to save him from getting booked under the Prevention of Atrocities Act as he had taken loans of crores of rupees on the names of Dalits workers and later defaulted EMIs of the loans. As Patil had cheated the Dalit workers brought this case before the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) headed by Buta Singh.
When Patil was demanded Rs Three Crore from Sweety to save him from the Prevention of Atrocity Act by influencing the officers of the department.

The same day he received awareness message from the ACB on his mobile saying to register the cases of anti corruption with the ACB and he followed the same route to register his case. On July 18 the ACB received the complaint and on July 22 a case against all the accused was lodged with the CBI also the CBI created a plan and started following the calls made by the Hawala operators and Sweety to the complainant.

The ACB has tie ups with the mobile service providers across the state which sends this awareness message to thousands of subscribers in Hindi, Marathi and English languages which includes the numbers of the ACB control to register the complaints. According to the ACB officials they receive numerous calls from across the state over their 2492 1212 number and in a month in at least five to six raids accused are arrested red handed.

Pravin Salunkhe, the superintendent of ACB said, "We get several calls on our control room number daily and our three officers record their complaint and forward it to the senior staff. After studying the complaint details we plan a trap and arrest the accused. In the case of Sweety Singh contractor Patil called the same number and informed us about the case and accordingly we unearthed the racket."

Meanwhile, the CBI on Saturday conducted searches at the house of Buta Singh’s son Sweety Singh in Delhi and recovered three unlicensed weapons and some live cartridges. A case under the Arms Act has been registered against Sweety at Nizamuddin police station.
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ANC arrested one person with 25KG Hasish
Officials from the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai police arrested a twenty five year old person near the Best bus sop at BKC with five kilograms of Hashish. Acting on a tip off ANC officials laid a trap at the spot. The accused identified as Mohammad Siddiqui alias Chotkan was frisked and when ANC officials ckcked the bag that he wa scarrying five kilo and hundred garms of Hashish ws found. He Hashish is said worth around Rs 5 lacs in Indian market which Siddiqui had come to deliver to another person. ANC officials are trying to find out about the person whom Siddiqui was going to deliver the drug.
Raju Wankhede the person who threatend witness in the Niraj grover murder case yesterday produced will be produced in court today. The murder which took place last years in which tow person were arrested including one model Maria susairaj.