News in brief from across Gujarat (updated)

Ahmedabad, 24 July 2013

-Amreli district’s Raydi dam and Dhatarvadi-2 dam overflow.

-As minister Nitin Patel is in South Africa for ten days to participate in GST study tour, his departments are distributed to three senior ministers namely Anandiben Patel, Saurabh Patel and Babubhai Bokhiria.

-The Gujarat High Court today dismissed a plea seeking cancellation of BJP MLA Shankar Chaudhary’s election as MLA. The High court charged the applicant with Rs. one lakh fine for wasting court’s time. The case was filed by independent candidate Hasmukh Thakkar.

-The city of Ahmedabad received heavy rain in the morning on Wednesday. This caused water logging in low lying areas and traffic jam during morning peak hours. Kubernagar and Mithakhali under bridges were closed for traffic for a while, but later opened.

-CBI has declared Rs. five lakh prize for those who provide proper identity of two terrorists killed in Ishrat Jahan encounter in year 2004. Those two are Zishan Johar and Amjad Ali. In ads placed in local newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the CBI offered a five-lakh reward for information that could help establish the identity of two of the three men shot dead with Ishrat. The Gujarat Police had earlier said the pair was Pakistani, and affiliated to the Lashkar.

-Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi today called on Gujarat ministers Anandiben Patel and Saurabh Patel in Gandhinagar for his proposed canal cleaning project.

-One Pakistani citizen and three boats are captured within Indian water in creek area of Kutch.