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Four-day meat ban in Mumbai during Jain fasting period imposed by city’s civic body

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Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has banned sale of meat for four days during the Jain festival of Paryushan. As per an order issued from Deonar abattoir, sale of meat in civic markets will be discontinued and the slaughterhouse will be shut on September 10, 13, 17 and 18.

While the Jain festival is scheduled to be held from September 10 to 17, Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations will begin in the city on September 17. Last year too, the sale of meat was banned in the city for four days.

The demand to ban meat sale, as per the order, was made by Ahimsa Sangh, Vishwamaitri Trust. “Jainism is based on the principle of non-violence. There are not only a lot of Jains in Mumbai but a lot of Jain monks will also be visiting the city during the period…we request you to cooperate during the rituals,” the letter said.

(Agencies)

Congress sends corporators to Madikeri

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Bengaluru: It has been more than three weeks since the BBMP election results were declared but there is still no clarity on the political alliances. With the mayoral elections not very far away, parties are trying protect their flock lest they go astray.

The New Indian Express reports that the Congress has herded its legislators to a resort in Madikeri in Kodagu district to protect them from being “approached” by the BJP ahead of the mayoral elections.

The fourteen JD(S) and seven independent corporators who have joined hands with the Congress to grab power at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are already in different resorts in Kerala, said the newspaper report.

According to the report, all the corporators and H D Kumaraswamy would return to the city on the day that the mayoral election is scheduled to be held.

Before they left for Madikeri in three buses, all corporators were given a list of dos and don’ts for the next four days by Parameshwara and other leaders.

The corporators were reportedly warned by the KPCC President to not take calls from strangers or BJP leaders.

​However, the leaders of the Congress have not had a one-on-one meeting with Kumaraswamy.

The newspaper reported that the BJP was still trying to prevent non-BBMP members from voting in the mayoral election. They want the State Election Commission to delete names of the Congress MLCs who were registered voters in their constituencies.

(Agencies)

Thai blast probe: 2 Indians picked up by police released

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Bangkok: The two Indians picked up by Thai police were released today after authorities found everything in order following their interrogation in connection with the country’s deadliest blast at a temple that killed 20 people.

The two men, whose names were withheld, had valid work permits and were legal, sources told PTI.

“Everything was found in order by the authorities,” they said. The two men were taken into custody on Sunday night after they were seen on CCTV talking to a foreign suspect wanted in Thailand’s deadliest bombing at the Brahma shrine here which killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others.

The sources said that no charges were made against the two men who were picked up by police as part of due diligence for questioning as they lived in the room next to one where police had found bomb-making materials.

Indian security agencies had also checked the background of two men who belong to Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka.

So far Bangkok police has issued arrest warrants have been issued for 12 suspects. Two have been arrested, both foreigners, one carrying a Chinese passport.

A combined force of police and army officers on Sunday raided several apartment buildings and rental houses in the Nimit Mai area of Min Buri district.

Col Wattana Yichin, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police overseeing Minburi police station, said the raid was part of crime suppression measures as many foreigners rent apartments and houses in the area.

A suspect who was arrested near the Cambodia border identified as Yusufu Meralli told military interrogators he had assembled the bomb for the actual bomber, who is yet to be nabbed.

The first man arrested, Adem Karadak, also known as Bilal Mohammed, has been remanded from military custody to prison.

Meralli, 25, identified the mastermind of the attack only as Izaan. He said Izaan commanded the operation by using WhatsApp chat application.

Meralli testified that Izaan left Thailand via Suvarnabhumi International Airport on August 16, a day before the bombing, for China and then headed to Bangladesh.

(PTI)

JD (S) withdraws conditions for alliance with the Congress in BBMP

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Bengaluru: HD Kumaraswamy, JD (S) leader made a u-turn on Monday September 7 by saying that the conditions he had set for having an alliance with the Congress in the BBMP council would be withdrawn.

He said that the part would not try for bargaining with regard to power-sharing in the Council anymore.

He added that he had put certain conditions for the Congress which was an independent decision. “I wanted the Congress to drop the Bengaluru restructuring bill, but the party’s stand was different. Now we have decided not to impose any conditions. The CM has to take the responsibility to see that things had to be set right,” he said.

He later said that if the Congress offered, the party would accept the post of the Deputy Mayor. A call on power-sharing module would be taken if the Congress felt benevolent enough to offer the post of Deputy Mayor and the party would not demand anything with regard to the standing committee posts, he added.

This was the first time that the JD(S) clarified its stand on the alliance with the Congress. Previously, as soon as the results were announced, the party used to assume contradictory stances which gave room to conspiracy theories.

However, national president HD Deve Gowda has said that they had not laid down any conditions. But Kumaraswamy has noted that he would not meet the Congress leaders until they issued a public statement that the proposed BBMP restructuring bill would be dropped.

Kumaraswamy informed that he had conveyed the party’s stand over the phone to state Congress president G Parameshwara and CM Siddaramaiah on Sunday September 6 and said that he might meet Parameshwara in a day or two.

He further said that the alliance with the Congress would be only in the BBMP, however, the JD(S) would not mind ruling the Council along for the next 5 years only on grounds that the Congress was willing to do the same.

He criticized the Congress and the BJP for branding the JD(S) an opportunist. He said that the national parties had misused his party to suit their convenience.

At present there are 3 candidates for the post of the Deputy Mayor in the JD (S) – MLA Gopalaiah’s wife S P Hemalatha from Vrushabhavathinagar, MLA B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan’s candidates Umme Salma (Kushalnagar ward) and Nazima Khanam (KR Pet ward).

(Agencies)

Fire in Air India flight, seven passengers injured

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New Delhi: A minor fire broke out in an Air India flight while landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport on Monday evening, in which seven passengers were injured, police said.

“Varanasi-Delhi flight AI 405 caught fire while landing at runway No.27 at the IGI airport around 8.30 p.m. today (Monday),” said a police official.

After the plane touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, smoke was seen from under carriage and pilot opted for evacuation, sources said.

The fire started after the hydraulic system of the flight reportedly failed.

“A total of 146 passengers onboard were evacuated safely and taken to the terminal building but seven of them received minor injuries,” said the official.

The flight had originated from Khajuraho for Varanasi, from where it took off for Delhi.

(Agencies)

Rakesh Maria promoted as DGP, Javed Ahmed is new Mumbai police chief

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Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria was on Tuesday promoted as the new Director General of Police (Home Guards), and Javed Ahmed appointed in his place.

A top home department official said Ahmed will take charge from Maria with immediate effect on Tuesday itself in view of the ensuing festive season of Ganeshotsav, Eid and Navratri.

Maria – who recently hogged limelight for his investigations into the Sheena Bora murder case – was due to be promoted on September 30, but the process was advanced to enable the police officers to settle down before the festive season.

The Mumbai police commissioner’s post is equivalent to that of director general.

Ahmed has been lauded as “a very good officer” by former top cop and diplomat J.F. Ribeiro.

(Agencies)

Three Bengaluru siblings murdered by their uncle

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Bengaluru: The three children, who had gone missing from their Banaswadi school in August, had indeed met with a gory end.

The police managed to trace the accused, who confessed to having murdered the children and dumping their bodies into a manhole.

The accused is their uncle — their father’s cousin — who was allegedly having an affair with the children’s mother.

Fayum Baig (24), an electrician, was arrested by the Banaswadi police on Monday. The police said Fayum was having an affair with Nazima Begum, a garment factory employee and resident of Pilllanna Garden.

Nazima was separated from her husband, Ilyas Baig, six months ago. He left for Hyderabad, leaving Nazima with the three children.

Fayum wanted to marry Nazima, but was enraged when he found her with another man. In a fit of revenge, he went to the school and called out to the three siblings Ali Abbas Baig (8), Raheem Baig (4) and Husna Begum (6).

Since the children knew Fayum, they ran towards him, calling out ‘ chacha chacha’ . That was the last time the children were seen. The accused took them to an isolated spot and strangulated them one by one. He then dumped their bodies into a manhole near a mini-forest in HBR Layout, K.G. Halli.

Nazima had filed a police complaint after the children went missing, suspecting that her husband had taken them. The police even went to Hyderabad to question Ilyas Baig. It was when they found out about Nazima having had multiple affairs that they zeroed in on Fayum.

The police have so far recovered the body of Husna. The search was suspended on Monday after the heavy water flow due to excessive rain.

(Agencies)

Sheena murder: Mumbai police bring Khanna to Kolkata

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Indrani Mukerjea’s former husband Sanjeev Khanna (in mask) in police custody. Photo: IE

Indrani Mukerjea’s former husband Sanjeev Khanna (in mask) in police custody. Photo: IE

Kolkata: A Mumbai police team on Monday escorted Sanjeev Khanna, a co-accused in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, to Kolkata to unearth more evidence.

Sources said Khanna — the former husband of prime accused Indrani Mukherjea — was brought to the eastern metropolis, where he used to reside prior to his arrest, in the early hours of Monday and taken to various spots where police conducted raids.

Mumbai police officers searched Khannna’s residence in south Kolkata’s posh Hastings area as also his office and the flat of one of his friends.

Businessman Khanna was arrested by Mumbai police here on August 26, a day after Indrani was nabbed in Mumbai for the murder of her daughter Sheena. On August 27, he was taken on transit visa to Mumbai, where he was interrogated.

On September 2, Mumbai police confiscated Khanna’s laptop and finance related papers, in a purported bid to retrace the chats and e-mails between him and Indrani ahead of Sheena’s murder in 2012.

In a bid to ascertain if Khanna’s alleged involvement in the conspiracy was for financial gain, police have studied Khanna’s bank accounts and investment details and took away the papers to Mumbai last week.

Indrani, the wife of former media honcho Peter Mukherjea, and her former driver Shyam Rai, are the other people charged with killing Sheena in 2012 and disposing of her body.

(IANS)

BJP organizes signature campaign against Congress and JDS

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Bengaluru: The BJP conducted a signature campaign against the state govenrment on Sunday in Bengaluru. The campaign was to highlight the infirmities in the cobbling up of an alliance by the Congress and the JDS against what they called the mandate of the People.

Union Ministers Ananthkumar, Sadanandagowda, BJP National Vice President B.S.Yediyurappa, BJP State President Prahalad Joshi, and other senior leaders of the Party were present during the campaign.

(Agencies)

Two Indians taken into custody in Thai bombing case

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Bangkok: Two Indians have been taken into custody for questioning by Thai police after they were seen on CCTVs talking to a foreign suspect wanted in Thailand’s deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple here, a media report said today.

The two Indians have been taken to a military camp for questioning, Nation quoted police as saying.

“Nothing is really known so far about the Indians and it is not clear what the questioning is about,” sources told PTI.

The two Indians, whose names were withheld, were taken away for questioning after Assistant Police Commissioner General Prawut Thawornsiri led 20 police and troops to search the Maimuna Garden Home apartment in Minburi at 9 pm last night.

The two Indians were staying in the room next to the one where police found bomb making materials, Nation said.

A foreigner who lived at the room and a Thai woman who rented the room for him are now wanted in the case.

Thai police is closely combing areas in search of people behind the August 17 bomb blast at the popular Erawan Brahma Shrine which killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others.

A combined force of police and army officers yesterday raided several apartment buildings and rented houses in Min Buri district.

Coloner Wattana Yichin, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police overseeing Min Buri police station, said the raid was part of crime suppression measures as many foreigners rent apartments and houses in the area.

Police so far have issued arrest warrants for ten suspects in connection with the case.

Two foreign suspects have been arrested. One of them was carrying a Chinese passport.

Meanwhile, a suspect who was arrested near the Cambodia border identified as Yusufu Meralli, told military interrogators he assembled the bomb for the actual bomber, who is yet to be nabbed.

The first man arrested, Adem Karadak, also known as Bilal Mohammed, has been shifted from military custody to prison.

Meralli admitted he assembled the bomb before handing it to a yellow-shirted suspect who was seen on CCTV at the shrine leaving behind a backpack which would have had the explosive device.

Mieraili had told the military that he was asked to assemble the bomb, he did not elaborate on who told him to make the explosive, Bangkok Post quoted police sources as saying.

Mieraili claimed he had never met the yellow-shirted suspect before.

Mieraili was carrying a Chinese passport which mentioned his place of birth as China’s western region of Xinjiang, but it is not known if it was forged.

(PTI)

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