Sabarkantha: Prantij police have booked three maulvis of the Jamia Darul Ahsan Waqf madrassa for allegedly assaulting students and confining them within the premises. An FIR against the accused — Mufti Yunus, Mohammed Anas Meman, and Mohammed Fahad — was filed following a complaint by a 16-year-old boy from Bihar, who, along with his younger brother and 32 other children, was brought to the madrassa on April 13 after being recruited from their village by one of the accused. The student all...Read More

Himatnagar, India - A distressing incident unfolded at Himatnagar Railway Station, where a group of children who had fled from a madrasa in Prantij, Sabarkantha district, were intercepted. The children, originally from Bihar, have made serious allegations of abuse against the madrasa administration. According to initial reports, eight children escaped the madrasa in the early hours of the morning, around 2:00 to 2:30 AM. They were later found at the Himatnagar Railway Station, where a confron...Read More

Sabarkantha: Local residents have blocked the Prantij Highway, causing a traffic jam on the road. Residents of Navdhara and New Patel Colony are protesting the diversion onto the service road. They have complained that due to the incomplete bridge work, the diversion onto the service road generates a lot of dust when vehicles pass by, as the road is in poor condition. The dust particles have caused four children in the community to fall ill, which has angered the locals. There have been sever...Read More

Prantij: A woman filed a complaint against two agents at the Prantij police station after her husband went missing for 7 months. The accused agents had promised to send him to the USA in exchange for Rs 70 lakh. Chetnaben Bharatbhai Rabari, a resident of Vaghpur in Prantij taluka, has lodged a complaint at the local police station. Allegedly, two agents, identified as Divyeshkumar alias Joni Manojkumar Patel from Nagalpur, Mehsana, and Mahendrabhai alias MD Baldevbhai Patel from New Ranip are...Read More

Prantij: Gujarat high court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest to Prantij MLA Gajendrasinh Parmar. The bench of Justice Samir Dave kept the Rajasthan Police from arresting Gajendrasinh Parmar, former minister and sitting MLA of Prantij and two others while they are in the state. The MLA along with Mahesh Patel and Ganpatsinh Zala are booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, for molesting a minor girl. The offence was reg...Read More

Gandhinagar: Mahendrasinh Baraiya, former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Prantij constituency in North Gujarat has joined ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at State party headquarters today. Baraiya was previously with main opposition Congress party. After joining BJP, Baratiya said he has joined BJP as he wants to become a part of the journey of development under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Baraiya said there was the politics of development on one hand and i...Read More

Sabarkantha: Congress gets another setback in Gujarat before the upcoming assembly elections, as former Prantij MLA Mahendrasinh Baraiya will resign from the party to join the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP). According to the reports, Ex MLA Baraiya will resign from the congress party as he was not happy with the congress party for a long time. As per sources, Mahendrasinh Baraiya will join BJP on 22nd August in presence of State BJP president C R Patil. It is the third big jolt for the...Read More

Himmatnagar: After the son of former Bhiloda MLA, late Anil Joshiyara joined the BJP, the stage is being prepared for the entry of another former Congress MLA from Sabarkantha in the saffron party. This ex Congress MLA is likely to join the BJP at a programme organized by a cooperative institution at Prantij. It is learnt that efforts were made from New Delhi and Gandhinagar to bring this ex Congress MLA from Prantij Talod assembly seat elected in the previous term into the party fold, fol...Read More