News in brief from across Gujarat(updated)

Ahmedabad, 5 July 2013

-A special CBI court im Mumbai today granted anticipatory bail to former Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria and three others who were charge sheeted in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case.Besides Kataria, director of R K Marble, Vimal Patni, Andra Pradesh cadre IPS officer N Balasubraminiam and inspector Shrinivas Rao were also granted pre-arrest bail on the bond of Rs 50,000.

-Water level at Narmada dam was 118.59 meter at 5.00 pm IST on Friday. Overflow shall happen at 121+ level, but as inflow is decreasing, don’t expect overflow soon.

-Gujarat MP and senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani today called on RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat and other RSS leaders in RSS headquarters at Nagpur.

-Yog Guru Baba Ramdev will address a youth convention in Amdavad on Saturday between 1.00-5.00 pm at Swaminarayan Gurukul on Drive-In road. The programme has been organized by Bharat Swabhiman and Patanjali Yog Samiti.

-A local court in Vadodara has summoned bollywood heroine Mallika Sherawat and Marriott hotel owner in obscene dance case. Narendra Tiwari, the then president of Baroda Bar Association, had filed a complaint against Sherawat and the owners of J W Marriot Hotel, Mumbai, in January 2007 over an allegedly obscene performance on new year’s eve program, seeking action under section 294 of Indian Penal Code. The dance performance was aired on several news channels.

-Gujarat government has handed over administration of government hospital in Bhuj to Adani.

-Gujarat’s total average rain this season at 8.00 am on Friday morning was 32.12%. Thus the state has nearly completed one/third of normal rain of monsoon in first three weeks itself.