Ahmedabad, June 18 (IANS) Ahmedabad’s food safety authorities inspected more than 1,000 food business establishments in the first half of June, collecting 409 samples and identifying 27 that failed quality and safety standards, including one sample deemed unsafe for consumption, according to data released by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The AMC’s Food Department, under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, conducted inspections across various wards and zones of the city betw…
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Ahmedabad, June 3 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has detained 131 individuals identified as Bangladeshi nationals during a large-scale verification drive carried out across multiple parts of the city, while interrogation is continuing for another 160 persons, police officials said on Wednesday. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sharad Singhal told IANS that the operation was not confined to any single locality but was conducted across several densely populated residential areas.”131 confir…
Ahmedabad, May 9 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has solved a 34-year-old murder case through forensic investigation and DNA evidence, leading to the arrest of two persons accused in the killing of a woman who went missing from the Vatva area of the city in 1992, officials said on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Farzana Radhanpuri.According to police officials, the case was reopened after the Crime Branch received specific inputs suggesting that human remains had been buried in the Qut…
Ahmedabad, May 9 (IANS) A DNA report has confirmed a positive match in the suspected 1992 murder case in Ahmedabad’s Vatva area, leading the Crime Branch to begin the process of registering an FIR in what investigators describe as a breakthrough in a more than three-decade-old case. Confirming the development to IANS, Crime Branch Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ajit Rajian, said: “DNA report has come in the Vatva murder case of 1992. There is a positive match. Now the FIR is being registere…
Ahmedabad, April 30 (IANS) Human skeletal remains recovered from a house in Vatva’s Qutub Nagar area have led Ahmedabad Crime Branch to a suspected breakthrough in a 35-year-old homicide case dating back to 1992, with investigators now pursuing DNA confirmation to establish the identity of the deceased. The remains were exhumed on Wednesday from a pit nearly 18 feet below the floor of a residential property during an operation carried out with an executive magistrate, Forensic Science Labor…
Ahmedabad, April 29 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Wednesday recovered human remains believed to be those of a woman killed in 1992, marking a significant development in a decades-old murder investigation in the Vatva area of the city. Police carried out excavation work using an excavator at a well located near Kumbhar Nagar Chowk in Vatva, where skeletal remains were recovered during the operation.Authorities suspect the remains belong to Farzana, also known as Shabnam, a Mumbai resident …
Ahmedabad, Jan 20 (IANS) The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) launched a major anti-encroachment drive near Bandarvat (Vanarvat) lake in the Vatva area of Ahmedabad. The operation began on Tuesday morning, continued till late evening with adequate police deployment in the area.According to officials, the drive was undertaken to free the illegally occupied area where many residential houses have been raised without government sanction.Heavy machinery including JCBs carried out demolition dri…
Vatva (Gujarat), Dec 26 (IANS) Union Labour & Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday announced that all upcoming and several existing EPFO offices are being redeveloped into modern, technology-enabled, Passport-Seva-Kendra-style single-window service centres, enabling citizens to resolve any EPF-related issue at any regional office across the country.Inaugurating the newly constructed Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) Regional Office her…