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Gymkhana manager held in Chembur body parts case

November 6, 2013

Gymkhana_managerMumbai, Nov 6: With the arrest of a gymkhana manager on Tuesday, the Chembur police claimed to have solved the mystery of the body parts of a woman that were found Chembur and Trombay last week.

The police said Prabhakar Shetty (31), manager of Chembur Gymkhana, killed 36-year-old fashion designer Kanta Shetty and cut her body into pieces in the bathroom of his first floor flat at Subhash Nagar in Chembur with a sharp knife and dumped the body parts in Chembur and Trombay.

“We have booked Prabhakar under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He will be produced before the court on Wednesday,” said Prahlad Panaskar, senior police inspector of Chembur police station, adding that Prabhakar also showed the nullah at Shell Colony in Chembur where he dumped the head of Kanta.

The police are yet to trace the hands and the blood-stained knife. “During the interrogation it was revealed that Prabhakar and Kanta met each other two-and-half year’s ago on a train to Mangalore and they became close friends,” Panaskar said, adding that Kanta started pressurising him to marry her.

Fed up with the mental torture, Prabhakar decided to kill her. “On the night of October 29, Kanta visited Prabhakar’s flat. They had a fight. Then Prabhakar took her to the bathroom and slit her throat with a knife. He chopped her hands, legs and head and put them in four big polythene bags,” said the official.

The police said Prabhakar hired an autorickshaw and told the driver that he wanted to dispose of puja articles. He then reached Charai lake in Chembur at 9.45pm and dumped the torso concealed in polythene bags. Then he returned home in the same auto.

“Later, he hired another autorickshaw and threw the hands and legs in the mangroves in the Trombay creek and returned home. After that he took another rickshaw to throw the head in a Shell Colony nullah in Chembur,” the official added.

The police said the incident came to light on November 4 when the victim’s elder sister Suhasini Shetty lodged a missing person’s complaint at Sakinaka and suspected Prabhakar’s involvement.

The missing person’s descriptions matched with descriptions of torso and limbs of a woman found at Chembur and Trombay, respectively. The Chembur police rushed to the spot and interrogated Prabhakar Shetty. During interrogation, Prabhakar confessed to the crime.

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News Network
January 28,2020

Kolkata, Jan 28: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said she is ready for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of Citizenship Amendment Act but the Centre has to first withdraw the contentious law.

Banerjee said protesting against the decisions of the centre doesn't make opposition parties anti-national and iterated that she will not implement CAA, NRC or NPR in the state.

"It is good that the prime minister is ready for talks but the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) must be revoked first. They (Centre) did not call an all-party meeting before taking a decision on Kashmir and CAA.

"We are ready for talks but first withdraw this Citizenship Amendment Act," Banerjee, a staunch critic of the BJP, said addressing a protest programme against CAA through paintings.

The West Bengal assembly had on Monday passed a resolution against the CAA to become the fourth state after Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan, to do so. The state assembly had on September 6, 2019, passed a resolution against the NRC.

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May 10,2020

New Delhi, May 10: The Delhi government has asked district magistrates to release 2,446 Tablighi Jamaat members from quarantine centres and ensure that they do not stay in any other place except their homes.

The district magistrates will explore the possibility of sending those Tablighi members, who belong to other states, in buses to their designated places in accordance with social distancing norms and other protocols, DDMA Special CEO K S Meena said in a letter to deputy commissioners (administration).

As man as 567 foreign attendees of the congregation held in Delhi's Nizamuddin area in March, will be handed over to the police, Meena said.

"They (foreign Jamaat attendees) will be handed over to police in connection with several violations like visa violation," a government official said on Saturday.

Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain had recently ordered the release of Tablighi members who have completed their required quarantine period in centres and tested negative for COVID-19.

"Out of such people belonging to Delhi, who could be released as per prescribed guidelines should be issued passes to travel from the quarantine centres.

"Under no circumstances, the aforesaid persons should be allowed to stay in any other places including mosques," Meena said in the letter.

In respect of those Tablighi members belonging to other states, it should be ensured by the nodal officer and the area ACP that such people reach their place of residence, he also said.

"The DC should also inform the respective resident commissioner of their states in respect of each and every movement of such persons from Delhi," the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Special CEO said.

Thousands of Tablighi Jamaat members had been taken out of its Markaz (centre) in Nizamuddin, where they had gathered for a religious congregation, and quarantined as the area became a major hotspot after a number of members tested positive for coronavirus.

On March 31, the Delhi Police's Crime Branch had lodged an FIR against seven people, including Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, on a complaint by Station House Officer, Nizamuddin, for holding the congregation.

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Agencies
July 30,2020

New Delhi, Jul 30: India witnessed a single-day spike of 52,123 COVID-19 cases as the total cases in the country reached 15,83,792, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.

The total cases include 5,28,242 active cases and 10,20,582 cured/discharged cases, the Health Ministry added.

A total of 775 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 34,968.

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-affected state as it reported 9,211 new COVID-19 cases 298 deaths on Wednesday. The total number of cases is now at 4,00,651 including 2,39,755 recovered cases, 1,46,129 active cases and 14,463 deaths.

The total number of cases in Tamil Nadu reached 2,34,114.

Delhi reported 1,035 COVID-19 cases yesterday, taking the total number of cases in the national capital to 1,32,275.

The total number of COVID-19 samples tested up to July 29 is 1,81,90,382 including 4,46,642 samples tested yesterday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

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