Ahmedabad, April 20 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested a 31-year-old man from Surendranagar district within hours of a social media post on X that allegedly hurt the sentiments of the Brahmin community and posed a risk to public peace, officials said on Monday.The accused, identified as Hasmukh alias Nikhil Chavda, is a resident of Housing Board Society near the Police Line in Thangadh of Surendranagar district.According to police, the action followed the detection of a post on April…
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Surendranagar/New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan on Monday expressed condolences following a fatal road accident in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district that claimed seven lives from a pilgrim group in the early hours of the day.Notably, the President is on a two-day visit to the state for various academic events.In a post on X, the President said: “The news of the death of people in a road accident in Surendranagar district of Gujarat is ex…
Ahmedabad, April 9 (IANS) A Deputy Mamlatdar posted in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district has been booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, with investigators stating that the excess wealth is over Rs 1.22 crore, or 56.89 per cent above his legitimate earnings. In an official statement issued on Wednesday, the ACB said that Chandrasinh Mori, a Class-3 officer in the Collector’s office in Surendranagar, has been …
Ahmedabad, April 2 (IANS) Foreign liquor worth around Rs 81.92 lakh was seized during a raid by the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) near Chharodi village on the Sanand-Viramgam highway in Ahmedabad Rural, officials said on Thursday, as part of an operation targeting an alleged illegal supply network. According to investigators, a total of 11,332 bottles of foreign liquor of various brands were recovered from an open plot belonging to Mansi Industries.The liquor was found to have been manufactu…
Ahmedabad, Feb 14 (IANS) Amreli District Congress president Pratap Dudhat has launched a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat on Saturday, claiming that further political fallout is imminent within the party following the resignation of farmer leader Raju Karpada.In a video statement, Dudhat alleged that after Karpada’s exit, the next political casualty could be AAP’s state president Isudan Gadhvi.“After Raju Karpada, now Isudan Gadhvi will face political consequences,” D…
Rajkot, Feb 12 (IANS) A day after resigning from all posts, Raju Karpada, former president of the Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party’s farmer wing, levelled serious allegations on Thursday against the party’s senior leadership, accusing it of neglect and internal sabotage.Addressing a press conference in Rajkot, Karpada claimed that the party failed to extend legal assistance when he and other farmer activists were jailed following a protest in Botad district.“I, and several fellow farmers, were in c…