News in brief from across Gujarat

Jaipur, 25 November 2014

–A local court today issued notice to CBI, the probing agency in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, and sought its reply with regard to bail plea of suspended Additional Director General of Police Pruthvi Pal Pandey.Special CBI Court Judge K R Upadhyaya issued the notice to CBI and posted the matter for hearing on December 12.

–Chotila taluka president Bhagwanbhai Rabari has resigned from the party to join the BJP.

–Gujarat Chief Minister today launched Smart Anganwadi Android application in Gandhinagar. As pilot project, 300 anganwadi women workers are given smart phones equipped with this application. Anganwadi workers will be able to click the food given to children and send pictures to higher ups for supervision.

–CBI court in Ahmedabad held hearing of suspended cop Tarun Barot’s bail plea in Sadiq Jamal encounter case. Further hearing will be held on 27 November.

-A group of trainee IPS today called on Gujarat Chief Minister. IPS Atul Karwal was present during this visit.

–Forest department has identified two persons, one who captured the video and the other who was seen in the video pulling tail of sick lioness in Dhari belt of Amreli district. Shivabhai and Kanubhai are from east Sakadia nes.

–Gir-Somnath district’s Prabhas Patan town witnessed communal group clash today morning in which four shops and four bikes were set to fire. More vehicles and shops are damaged. Fire brigade also rushed to the spot. 6 persons including cops were injured in this incident. Both groups threw soda bottles and stones of about half an hour or so. Police lobbed 8 tear gas shells to control the situation.

–Gujarat Police has served force retirement notice to IPS Himanshu Bhatt for going on long leave without permission.

–Devaliya family in Junagadh has made an invitation card which can be folded and converted into a nest of sparrow.

–One Tariq Saiyed has been held in Vadodara for faking his identity as Devang Sharma and sign rental agreement. Tariq is from Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir and was trying to get visa on fake identity of Devang Sharma. He is living with his wife in Vadodara. Police is investigating the matter.

–The city of Rajkot is hosting Big Auto Show in which 300 foundry companies are taking part.

–Jamnagar based Bharatsinh Parmar and his team are trying to break 8 world records. As Guinness book of records team is arriving in Jamnagar to verify his 86 ft long bike which has been considered as record, Bharatsinh is also trying to break some other records. 17 ft dantardu, 43 ft pavdo, 14 ft shield, 40 ft calipers are among the records he want to demonstrate before visiting Guinness team from London and Mumbai.

–Mayor, Municipal Commissioner and a group of senior officers from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will be visiting China as part of the sister city MoU signed during the visit of Chinese President to Ahmedabad. City beautification, civic services and development projects will be studied during this visit.