News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad

–Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch has arrested notorious extortionist Vishal Goswami from Utarakhand. Goswami was operating extortion network across six states including Gujarat. Goswami had opened a transport company at Khincha village of Rudrapur belt of Uttarakhand. Goswami was wanted in four incidents of murder, loot and firing in Ahmedabad. After recent incident of firing on jeweler father-son, Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch had sent a team to north India in search of Goswami.Police had got number of Goswami’s Scorpio car. After two days of chasing, and one round of firing, injured Goswami was arrested.Police recovered two pistol from Goswami.The operation was jointly executed by Uttarakhand Police Special Task Force and Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch. Goswami is involved in murder of two jewellers Pankaj Soni and Prakash Soni and firing on Prakash Patel and Nand Jewellers in Ahmedabad. Police has arrested his 9 gang members in past. With him, his brothers are also arrested.

–More details are coming out from Enforcement Directorate’s raid on major satta betting den in Vadoara. It is believed that ED team had traced massive number of phone calls between Gujarat, Pakistan and Dubai and had smelled something fishy. Later phone calls were put under observation. Accordingly, the ED team came to know about a big global satta betting network. ED team earlier tried to raid betting den in Paldi area of Ahmedabad during ongoing cricket world cup. However the attempt was unsuccessful. In the next match, betting operators changed their location and went to a farm house near Vadodara. ED team conducted successful raid there and recovered 15 laptops, 100 mobile phones and nabbed 12 persons including Kiran Vala and Girish Patel alias Tomi Patel. ED has found Dubai and Pakistan connections. ED has also found that Rs. 5 crore were sent abroad via Hawala per cricket match. 40 live cartridges are found from Kiran’s house. Girish who has been arrested in betting cases in past too is BJP Councillor elected from ward no.12 in Unjha municipality of north Gujarat. He is also Director of local APMC. Girish and Kiran were operating Satta betting network through BetFair.Com – a website operated from abroad. Enforcement Directorate is likely to hand over 15 accused to Vadodara Police. Owner of farm house is already facing police case for violation of public notification.

–Pakistan will release 57 fishing boats of Indian fishermen tomorrow morning. Pakistan will take help of local Pakistani fishermen to bring these boats to International Marine Boundary Line. Indian Coast Guard will receive these boats at boundary line and hand over them to Indian fishermen who will first bring the boats to Okha port and later will take them to Porbandar port. Earlier plan was to send over 150 India fishermen to Pakistan to bring back boats. Their passport were urgently issued and visa applications were filed. However Pakistan government has taken a decision to hand over the boats at IMBL. Entire process will take four to five days.

–Question paper of Biology which should come out of exam hall only after the exam is over, actually was found in circulation outside exam hall even before the exam was over. This sparked off speculation of leakage of paper.