Godhra: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has sealed an ice cream manufacturing plant in Bombay Chowpati Icecream as the samples from the Effluent Treatment Plant system failed the parameters. GPCB had received complaints that an illegal pipeline was used in the plant for the discharge of polluted water. On January 10, a site visit was done by GPCB's regional officer, during which an illegal pipeline was detected. The pipeline was removed, and ETP plant-processed water samples were collecte...Read More

Vadodara: Veterinary doctors here extracted approximately 45kg of plastic from the stomach of a cow housed at a cattle pound near Godhra after its capture in a strayed condition. The cow was unwell and refusing to eat for several days which prompted officials at the Paravdi cattle pound to request a Karuna ambulance via the 1962 helpline. Due to the bovine's weakened and dehydrated condition, doctors conducted an examination, detecting a lump in its stomach. The symptoms suggested the pres...Read More

Vadodara: The construction of the 1,350 km long 8-lane wide Delhi–Mumbai Expressway is ongoing in Gujarat and Maharashtra. In Gujarat, one section of the Delhi Mumbai Expressway from Vadodara to Bharuch is nearly complete and is likely to be inaugurated before the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Bharuch-Vadodara section of the expressway A YouTube vlogger recently visited the Bharuch-Vadodara section of the expressway, and as depicted in the detailed video, the road con...Read More

Vadodara: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat Police has nabbed a senior clerk of district cooperatives in Godhra in a bribe case along with his office peon. Accused Rajesh Vaghadiya is a senior clerk working in district cooperatives in Godhra. He is a class 3 staffer of the government and a resident of Kadana taluka. The other accused is Mehul Baria, a peon outsourced by the government for the same office. According to ACB, the complainant in this case works as a secretary at Seva Sah...Read More

Godhra: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat today nabbed a Revenue Talati here in Godhra taluka on in a bribery case involving the sum of Rs. 3000. According to the complaint, the joint owner of survey number-34 sought to eliminate the names of individuals without a share in the land. Additionally, the plaintiff aimed to include the names of those with a stake in the land and partition of the land block. To facilitate these processes, the complainant approached the accused, Pardeepbha...Read More

Godhra: A local court in Godhra sentenced Hasan Abdulgani Chhakda to 7 years of strict imprisonment and also ordered Rs 30 thousand fine for getting a passport using fake documents. Vikramsinh Bachusinh ASI (retired) had filed a complaint at Godhra city 'B' division police station in 2012 against Hasan Abdugani Chhakda (lives in Chhakdawad, Godhra) who had mentioned different birthdate, time, year and location in his Indian passport, election card and birth certificate. The convict had sta...Read More

Godhra: A convict who was serving a life sentence in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case has been apprehended one year after he escaped parole. Acting on a tip-off that Qasim Abdul Sattar Qazi was residing in Limkheda taluka, the parole furlough squad of Panchmahal Police reached the location on Saturday and arrested him. He has been handed over to Godhra B Division police station and will be taken to Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad to complete the remainder of his sentence. Notably, this ...Read More

Godhra: Two cross-complainants were registered here in Godhra after a clash occurred on Monday evening between two communities over the use of a road. One person was injured, and 10 individuals were arrested in connection with the incident. According to a complaint, Mitrang Parmar and others objected to Kaderkhan Pathan using a street in their area. The street Pathan uses regularly was closed for railway underpass construction. While Pathan was riding his motorcycle through the street, Parmar...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday opposed the discharge application of former Director General of Police (DGP) R. B. Sreekumar, who is accused of fabricating evidence in relation to the 2002 communal riots. During the court proceedings before Additional Sessions Judge DD Thakkar, the state government claimed that Sreekumar was part of a criminal conspiracy to create false evidence in order to secure capital punishment for innocent people in the aftermath of the Godhra riots. Activist...Read More

Godhra: The Godhra Police SOG (Special Operation Group) have nabbed one Munnavar Ishak Patel, accused of allegedly selling 142 SIM cards by misusing Aadhar cards and photos of various people from Richhvani village. The Godhra SOG inspected the CAF (common application forms) forms of the suspected mobile numbers. Upon analyzing the details of the CAF forms, it was found that 142 SIM cards were activated using photos and the Aadhar cards of different individuals. The agent who activated the...Read More