News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad, 22 April 2014

-A minor clash between Congress and BJP workers errupted outside the Gujarat University Convention center on Tuesday evening following heated discussion between two parties at a debate programme. According to initial details available at this time, four Congress workers including central Gujarat zone spokesperson Maulin Shah are admitted to city’s V.S. hospital. They alleged they were beaten up by BJP workers.

-Agriculture, Cooperative department’s district registrar Krishnakant Patel has been caught along with a consultant Saurabh Patel by Anti Corruption Bureau Ahmedabad for taking Rs. 48.56 lakh as bribe to release salary.

-Gujarat Congress’s Legal Cell Chairman VH Kanara leaves Congress, likely to join BJP in Jamnagar.

-Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch arrests three robbers from Madhya Pradesh involved in various incidents of crime in Gujarat including Prakash Soni murder case. Four cases are detected.

-Jaypalsinh Rathore is new district police chief of Narmada. Existing DSP Vinod Mall shifted to Vadodara city as DCP(Crime).

-Doctors in Adani run GK General hospital in Bhuj on strike against document registration.