News in brief from across Gujarat

Rajpipla: A complaint has been filed against Ahmedabad based private travel company for overcharged tickets of Statue of Unity. A travel agency is accused of altering PDF document of online ticket print out and making changes in payable amount of ticket from Rs. 1030 to Rs. 1260.

Anand: Kite flying festival Uttarayan was over on 15 January, but lethal kite string is still killing people. A person Pinkesh Patel from Vadodara died due to kite string injury near Janta chowkdi in Anand when he was passing through the road on bike.

Surat: City based sports person Harmeet Desai has become National champion in 81st senior Nationals and inter state Table Tennis championship held at Hyderabad. He is first Gujarati to achieve this honour.

Junagadh: First Junagadh Marathon run event was held today morning.

Ahmedabad: Former MLA and BJP leader Alpesh Thakor at his bungalow in city hosted his son Utsav Thakor’s wedding with a girl Urvi who is from Thara in Banaskantha district. Thakors completed wedding ceremony in a simple ceremony within the bungalow in city.

Vadodara: Vadodara: A group of Muslims are attempting to stage round-the-clock sit-in dharna in style of Delhi Shahinbagh against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Saudagar Park based open plot in Muslims dominated Tandalja area of city. Like everywhere else, left-leaning group of local Muslims in Tandalja too attempted to gather women and children for dharna. It started on Friday and continued on Saturday with banners. On Sunday, the tent was removed by tent supplier and power supply to venue was disconnected. The organizers had not sought permission from the police to hold this dharna agitation and use loud speakers. The Times of India quoting police official (not named) reports that investigations revealed that Sagir Ahmed Ansar, who was recently booked for sharing an inflammatory post against some doctors over CAA issue, was involved in organizing the dharna along with a councillor. Ansari was booked for the post and he is currently on anticipatory bail.When Ansari and others were called to the crime branch to inquire about their role in the protests, they denied having organized it.