Hanuman temples in the city decked up for Hanuman Jayanti celebrations. Large number of devotees thronged temples in different localities to take darshan of the Lord.
Mahaprasad and religious programmes are also organized across the city to mark the occasion.
Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group, gestures during the annual general meeting of Tata Steel Ltd., in Mumbai August 13, 2010. Shares in India’s Tata Steel opened up more than 2 percent on Friday, shrugging off a gloomy industry outlook after the world’s No. 7 steelmaker’s June quarter profit lagged estimates. Tata Steel said on Thursday it expects industry fundamentals to remain cautious in the second half of the 2011 financial year. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA – Tags: BUSINESS)
Nagpur: Industry legend and former Chairman of Tata Sons Ratan Tata on Wednesday met Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur. This information was shared by RSS sources on Thursday.
This was the second visit of Ratan Tata to the RSS Headquarters in Nagpur. Earlier on December 28, 2016, he had visited the Sangh Headquarters and held a marathon meeting with Dr Bhagwat. According to sources, the topmost industrialist arrived in city on Tuesday and after meeting the RSS chief on Wednesday, returned on the same day. A functionary of the RSS described Tata’s meeting with Dr Bhagwat as a courtesy call. Last year in August, Ratan Tata had shared dais with Dr Bhagwat in Mumbai during centenary birth celebration of RSS leader late Nana Palkar.
Nagpur: In two different incidents reported under the jurisdiction of Jaripatka and Mankapur police respectively, two women have accused two men of exploiting them sexually on marriage promises.
In first incident, a 34-year-old woman accused Chandrakant Balaram Ghodeswar (36), a resident Plot. No. A401, Hilltop Society, Wadi, of sexually exploiting her between September 20, 2018 and February 25, 2019. The accused doled out marriage promise and established physical relationship with her. However, by the end of February the accused started avoiding her and stopped talking with her. Sensing something amiss, when the rape survivor went Chandrakant’s Wadi based house, the accused reportedly refused to meet her. Finally, she registered a case against the accused with Jaripatka police.
Jaripatka police have booked accused Chandrakant Ghodeswar under Sections 328, 376(2)(K) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and started investigation.
In a similar incident, reported under Mankapur police jurisfiction, a 32-year-old woman was raped and blackmailed by a Nari based man between April 1, 2016 and March 15, 2019.
According to police sources, accused Sandeep Singh Gurutejsingh Bhati (32), a resident of Gurutegbahadur Nagar, Nari Road met the 32-year-old woman back in 2016. The duo soon shared numbers and started talking over phones and social media platforms. Subsequently the friendship soon turned into a love affair. In the meantime, the accused had expressed his desire to marry with her and exploited her sexually. The accused also siphoned Rs 35,000 from the rape survivor’s bank account on one pretext or another.
However, in March this year when the victimised woman expressed her wish to marry him the accused Singh started avoiding her. When she confronted him, Singh even refused to share a word and started ignoring her calls and texts. Left with no option, the woman approached Mankapur police station and filed a complaint against accused Singh.
Mankapur police have booked accused under Sections 328, 376(2)(N), 377, 384, 506 of the IPC and started probe.
Two women raped with marriage promise in Jaripatka, Mankapur
Nagpur: Under the international exchange programme, city’s RK Psychotherapy Clinic has associated and partnered with ‘in-kids Baku Azerbaijan’ run by Nurlana Ismailova, Azerbaijan’s leading psychologist for technical guidance exchange of both countries as well cooperative programme with Azerbaijan Psychology and Psychotherapy Association (APPA).
RK Psychotherapy Clinic is run by Dr Raakesh Kripalani. The Azerbaijan psychologist Nurlana will be in Nagpur in the month of June to deliver workshop for schools and colleges institutes.
City’s RK Psychotherapy Clinic associates with Azerbaijan organisation
Nagpur: Good Friday was observed in the city on April 19. Members of Christian community offered prayers in churches across the city. Traditional programmes were held at SFS Cathedral Church, Civil Lines and other churches to commemorate the crucifixion of Lord Jesus Christ.
Nagpur: A drug peddler, who jumped parole and went absconding 12 years ago, was nabbed by Detection Squad of Jaripatka police and sent to jail.
The accused Balu Babulal Ajit (41), resident of Kabir Nagar, Plot No. 204, Jaripatka, was arrested under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and was lodged in Nagpur Central Prison from May 15, 2007 as hearing in the case was going in Sessions Court. However, the accused applied for parole and was subsequently released for seven days on June 15, 2007. The accused Balu Ajit was supposed to return to jail on June 23, 2007 but he jumped the parole and went absconding since then.
A team Detection Squad of Jariptaka police was on the trail of the absconding drug peddler but he managed to dodge cops for years. Following painstaking investigations and digging information, cops succeeded in rounding up the wanted accused. He was produced before Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court which sent him to jail.
The arrest was made by Senior PI D D Landge, PSI V B Pawar, constables Deepak Bandane, Kanoujiya, Gajendra Singh Thakur, Bandu Kalambe, sepoys Laxman Chavre, Pralesh Kapse under the guidance of DCP Zone 5 and ACP.
Drug peddler, absconding since 12 years, nabbed by Jaripatka cops
Gondia: Taking advantage of superstitious notions prevailing rampantly in society, a fake tantrik exploited a 17-year old girl sexually for five days on the pretext of curing her ailments. The ordeal of the girl ended as the pervert tantrik was arrested and put behind bars.
The victim of superstitions, a family from village Fulchur near Gondia was trapped by the fake tantrik named Lankesh. The family’s 17-year old daughter was suffering from a lump in her chest since years. When the tantrik came to know about the suffering of the girl, he contacted her family on March 27 and ‘assured’ to cure her without expensive surgery. Later, on a day when the girl’s father and uncle had gone out of station for some work, the fake tantrik went to their house on the pretext of treating the girl. In the night the tantrik started his scary ‘rituals. He gave a black coloured pill to other members of the family. As they consumed the pill, they went unconscious. Taking advantage of the lone girl, the fake tantrik raped her forcibly.
Thereafter, with his tantra-mantra the fake tantrik weaved such a scary web that the girl’s family members started ‘believing’ his treatment methods, of course unaware of exploitation of the girl. The family members even locked the house door from outside in the night allowing the tantrik and the girl inside With this kind of weird ‘treatment’ the tantrik victimised the girl for five days. However, the black deeds of the fake tantrik got exposed when the girl’s father and uncle returned home and found the house locked. They enquired about it with neighbours who told them that the house locked since seven days. They broke open the lock and found all the family members unconscious and the tantrik sitting at a corner of the room. Soon, the family sensed the black deeds of the fake tantrik and thrashed him black and blue. Later he was handed over to police. The victimised girl was later admitted to Gondia District Hospital for check up.
Based on the complaint of the family, cops booked the bogus tantrik Lankesh under Sections 376(2)(J)(N), 342, 506 of the IPC read with Sections 4, 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and arrested him. He was produced in a court which remanded him to police custody for four days. After custodial interrogation, the fake tantrik was sent to Bhandara Jail till further investigations.
Fake tantrik rapes minor girl on pretext of ‘treatment’ in Gondia, arrested
Nagpur: Often people curse their fate and time saying kalyug hai. But honesty and kindness still exists in the society. Some good souls really make the difference by bringing smiles on faces of people with their noble act.
This was evident once again when a man, who found a purse on road, handed it over to the Ajni police, who in turn traced the original owner and returned it to her within 24 hours of the incident.
The man, who did not wish to disclose his identity, found the purse lying on the road near water tank in Wanjari Nagar under the jurisdiction of Ajni police station.
On getting the purse, the cops searched it, which contained only documents. On the basis of the documents, the staff of Ajni police traced the owner identified as Dr Praniti Bhageshwar, a resident of Joshiwadi, Nagpur. After getting her contact, the cops contacted her and informed her that her purse was found, to which she was surprised. The cops called her to the police station and handed over the missing purse with all the documents intact in it.
Assistant Police Inspector Aherkar, Police Sub-Inspector Nanoti and Constable Sanjay Kamble played a key role in the search of the purse owner Ms Bhageshwar.
Nagpur: PNG Jewellers, Bajaj Nagar organised a fashion show ‘Bollywood Retro’ for its customers in the city on Wednesday.
PNG Jewellers promoted its newly launched Katha collection” jewellery at the event.
The fashion show evoked good response with participation of 30 women of the city, informed Nagpur PNG Branch Manager Prashant Kuche.
Customers Roshani Autkar, Karuna Gathibandhe and Nadiya Pande were declared winners of the event. All the winners and participants of the fashion show were awarded gifts. Sayali Deshpande was the judge of the competition.
PNG Jewellers organises fashion show -‘Bollywood Retro’ for customers
Beautiful floats with idols of different Gods and Goddesses and selecting mythological events taken out during the Shobha Yatra in Gittikhadan in the city to mark Hanuman Jayanti on Friday.
– Pics Sandeep Gurghate
Colourful Shobhayatras mark Hanuman Jayanti celebration in Nagpur
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday carried out raids in Telangana’s Hyderabad and Maharashtra’s Wardha in connection with an Islamic State module case, officials said.
“The raids are on at three places in Hyderabad and one place in Wardha since early morning,” a senior NIA official connected to the 2016 Islamic State module case probe told IANS.
However, the official refused to share more details.
Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) organised a day-long training on leadership for women on the topic ‘Housing and basic services for urban poor’. The training was held at Press Club, Civil Lines in the city, recently.
Social worker Urmilla Badge, President of KrantikariMahila Cooperative Society of Shanti Nagar, Ahilya Nagdive and Nitin Meshram from YUVA guided the participants and said women empowerment is essential for the progress of society.
Badge said that co-operative movement has played vital role in women’s development. Nitin Meshram conveyed the different aspects of leadership.
Sheela Sapkal, Chaya Uike, Shamim Shaikh, Nisha Velde and Smita Rangari also expressed their views at the workshop. This workshop was attended by Usha Jambhulkar, Priyanka Deshpande, MrinaliBhasare, Sujata Borkar, Pushpa Sakhare, Vandana Thakre and others. Nitin Meshram conducted the programme while Shailendra Wasnik proposed a vote of thanks. A large number of women from slum area were present at the workshop.
Nagpur: A group of people are making rounds of Al Hijaj Haj Umrah Tours in Kamptee seeking their money back collectively Rs 10.9 lakh and passports. A group of Haj pilgrims have been allegedly defrauded by agents Muziboor Rehman and Noor Mohammad Ansari, who are booked by Kamptee police for fraud.
According to police sources, the matter came to fore when 65-year-old Naseem Akhtar son of Mohammad Hanif, resident of Bunkar Colony, lodged a complaint with Kamptee police accusing Rehman and Ansari of cheating him of Rs 5.7 lakh, the amount he had paid for Haj pilgrim for three members of his family in 2017.
Even after paying the money, the Akhtar family could not go for Haj and VISA denial was the reason told to them. Subsequently, the duo assured Akhtar that they will book a sanctioned tour in 2018 to win his confidence. But to their dismay, Akhtar and his family members could not perform the Haj owing to apathy of tour firm.
Getting angry over it, the 65-year-old approached Al Hijaj Haj Umrah Tours seeking his money back, but the accused duo turned a blind-eye towards his demand. With no option left, Akhtar then approached the police and filed a complaint.
During the investigation, Kamptee police learnt that the accused duo had also duped Mohammad Aslam Ansari son of Abdul Azeez, resident of Lakadganj of Rs 5.2 lakh under the same pretext.
Kamptee police have booked Rehman and Ansari under Sections 420, 406, 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and started the probe.
Nagpur: Immediate past chairman of Nagpur branch of ICAI CA Umang V Agrawal has been nominated as a member of research committee of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi for the year 2019-20.
The research committee is a non-standing committee of ICAI set up in 1955 with a view to undertake research activities to improve the quality of services rendered by the profession. The primary objective of the committee is to undertake research in the field of accounting and other affiliated areas with a view to enhance the value of services rendered by the profession.
The ICAI, through its research committee, has continuously striving to provide general guidance for recording and reporting complex accounting transactions in accordance with the accounting principles laid down in accounting standards. The committee also conducts an annual competition, ‘ICAI Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting’ with a view to improve presentation of financial statements.
Reacting on his appointment, Agrawal expressed his pleasure and thanked the President of ICAI, Prafulla Chajjed and the council to allow him contribute to the profession through the activities of the committee.
The committee comprises Babu Abraham, Central Council Member as Chairman and chartered accountant members from different parts of the country.
City CA Umang Agrawal named on research committee of ICAI for 2019-20
Nagpur: While the city residents are not facing drinking water scarcity this summer season, the situation is pathetic in the adjoining areas.
People residing under the Wadi Municipal Council on Amravati Road, adjoining Nagpur city are facing harrowing time due to drinking water scarcity for the past several months. At present, the people are supplied drinking water through tanker. A large number of water barrels are seen in front of every house in the locality.
According to the local residents, earlier the tanker would visit their area every Saturday. However, now it visits once in 12 days. Thus they are made to wait for the basic necessity for a longer period.
The local residents raised the issued before leaders of some political party, who had visited the area for poll campaigning around a fortnight ago. The leaders had then assured the problem would be solved soon, but to no avail.
With the tanker visiting after every 12 days, the people store water in barrels to meet their needs. Residents of Dattawadi are supplied water from Vena filter, where the situation is alarming. According to reports, the situation would worsen in coming days and it is high time the administration initiates necessary steps.
Acute water shortage in Wadi, tanker supplies water once in 12 days
Nagpur: Olympian shuttler Nikhil Kanetkar inaugurated the Gaikwad-Patil International School-SJAN Media Badminton Tournament organised by Sports Journalists’ Association of Nagpur (SJAN) in association with Department of Sports and Physical Education of RTM Nagpur University at Subhedar Hall on Saturday.
Principal of Gaikwad-Patil International School Shabih Chaurasia, acting Director of Department of Sports and Physical Education Prof Atmaram Pande, Coordinator of PGTD of Physical Education Dr Madhavi Mardikar, CEO of Gaikwad-Patil International School Anjali Ruben, noted sports organiser Deven Dasture and others were present on the occasion. SJAN President Kishor Bagde and guests honoured Kanetkar by presenting memento and shawl.
Dr Ram Thakur conducted the proceedings while Suhas Nayse proposed a vote of thanks.
Results:
Men’s singles first round: Abhishek Choudhary bt Vikrant Nawate 15-9; Rajesh Vyavhare bt Sudarshan Sakharkar 15-4; Shashi Rahate bt Raynold Morris 15-11; Raviraj Ambadwar bt Sameer Barde 15-3; Pravom Kathane bt Shailesh Pudke 15-4; Saurav Pal bt Manish Shriwas 15-2; Vilas Tijare bt Gaurav Parek 15-8; Mahesh Sarangi b Narendra Chakraborty 15-3; Manish Sakharwade bt Mahendra Barwat 15-1; Sandeep Wardhane bt Nilesh Deshpande 15-4; Ameya Manke bt Shishir Deshmukh 15-4.
Men’s singles second round: Anjaya Anaparthy bt Abhishek Choudhary 15-10; Sandeep Wardhane bt Satish Dandare 15-6; Saurav Pal bt Vilas Tijare 15-9
Mixed doubles first round: Raviraj Ambadwar-Mrs Ambadwar bt Samresh Acharya-Pragati Khandelwal 15-2; Ameya Manke Kajal Chopde bt Trupti Deo-Aniket Deo 15-12.
Women singles first round: Kalaj Chopde bt Pragati Khandelwal 15-8; Rakhi Chavan bt Sonali Jichkar 15-8.
Men’s doubles: Gaurav-Saurav Pal bt Mahendra Barwat-Ranjit Jadhav 15-9.
Nagpur: Sitabuldi police have rounded-up a 44-year-old travel agent, a resident of Itwari for allegedly raping a 39-year-old woman by giving her slipping pills in her drinks when she had visited his Ramdaspeth based shop in May 2017. The victim said that she was raped repeatedly till December 2018.
Police have booked accused Aarif Abdul Kadir Sheik a resident of Itwara Bazar, near Mutton Market, Ward no. 26 under Sections 376, 328, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The accused had threatened to defame her if she revealed the matter to anybody and started blackmailing her. Hence she remained silent for all these months, the rape survivor told the police.
According to police, Sheik works as a travel agent in Ramdaspeth based shop Travel Tag where he first met with the survivor. A 39-year-old woman had some queries regarding her insurance schemes, following which the accused started meeting her in her office. In May 2017, the accused invited her to his Ramdaspeth office on the pretext of assisting her with insurance. When the survivor went to meet him, Sheik slipped sedatives in her drinks. Soon when the victim lost conscious, Sheik raped her and threatened her with dire consequences if she discloses this to anyone.
Subsequently Sheik started to commit this heinous crime on regular basis by blackmailing the survivor.
However, fed-up with this continuous physical torture and mental trauma, the survivor finally developed the courage. She then narrated her ordeal to her family members following which they approached Sitabuldi police station and filed a complaint.
Nagpur: Chartered accountants and government departments should work hand in hand for development of our country, said Union Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal during his maiden visit to Nagpur branch of ICAI. The potential of CA’s, duly recognised in ensuring financial discipline in government department, would give more strength to status of CA’s as partners in nation building, he said.
GST was the most challenging task to be implemented in a country with vivid classes like India. Many countries in entire world failed to implement GST smoothly. But in India, credit goes to the chartered accountants fraternity for guiding and ensuring good implementation in a short span of time he added.
Goyal also explained government’s stand on GST and said he is hopeful that all tax problems of trade and industry will be resolved in due course of time.
Goyal, who himself was a ranker in CA exams, also addressed a section of CA students, where he motivated them to inculcate values like honesty, transparency and integrity with an attitude of serving the country in any capacity. He said that most of the exams can be cleared with positive mindset and commitment.
Suren Duragkar, Chairman Nagpur branch, welcomed Goyal and said that CA’s are excelling in all fields and elaborated remarkable work done by chartered accountants in other fields like politics’, police department, bureaucracy. Duragkar said many CA’s have become IAS and IPS and brought glory to the CA fraternity.
He appraised about the issues faced by the assesee in GST implementation to which Goyal addressed point wise. Duragkar also raised the issue in transparency in allotment of audit in banking and other sector. He emphasised on audit of government local bodies, railways, etc. to which Goyal gave assured implementation of various suggestions in this regard.
Regional Council Member Abhijit Kelkar said it was privilege for Nagpur branch that Goyal himself visited the branch and showed the humbleness towards his fraternity. CA’s can prove to be an asset for government if their services are utilised in government sectors, he added.
Julfesh Shah, former Vice chairman WIRC thanked the Union Minister for his presence and guidance. He also assured Goyal of wholehearted support and assistance from the CA fraternity in all the responsibilities given to them in time to come.
Prominently present on the occasion were, Swapnil Ghate. Swapnil Agrawal, Kirit Kalyani, Saket Bagdia, CA Sanjay Agrawal, Akshay Gulhane Harish Rangwani Aashish Mukim, Jethalal Rukhiyana, Naresh Jakhotia, D P Sarda and a large number of chartered accounts and students.
CA’s role in financial discipline indispensable Piyush Goyal
Nagpur: A 34-year-old woman working as a sales executive with a renowned real estate company of the city has accused manager of the firm of sexually exploiting her between September 20, 2018 and February 25, 2019.
Preying on the helpless females co-workers, accused Chandrakant Balaram Ghodeswar (36), a resident of Plot. No. A 401, Hill-top Society, Wadi has victimised several girls working in the firm, the survivor alleged, adding owing to social stigma, none of the victim girls have come forward come to narrate their ordeal.
According to the rape survivor, it all started in 2018 when she joined Sachidanand Realities Company Private Limited, Trimurti Nagar as a sales executive. Ghodeswar, who still works as a Royal Manager with the firm proposed her, before luring her with the promise of salary hike and promotions. However, when the survivor refused to entertain him, Ghodeswar took her to a private resort on the pretext of office meeting and raped her after slipping sedatives in her drinks and captured the entire heinous incident in his camera, the victim alleged.
Ghodeswar then threatened her to make the video clip public if she disclosed the incident to anyone. At the same time he promised that he would marry her. As a result, she kept mum while Ghodeswar continued exploiting her on the regular basis.
However, by the end of February this year, Ghodeswar started avoiding her messages on phones and receiving her calls. Sensing something amiss, when the survivor approached his Wadi based house, the accused reportedly refused to meet her. Following which, she went to Jaripatka police and filed a complaint.
On the basis of the complaint, Jaripatka police have registered offences against Ghodeswar under sections 328, 376 (2), (K) of the Indian Penal Code and started investigations. It is reported that Ghodeswar is currently in Thailand on an official visit.
Real estate company employee accuses colleague of sexually exploiting her
Issues notices to builders
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Nagpur: In a significant move, the National Consumer DisputesRedressal Commission, New Delhi comprising Justice Deepa Gupta (Retd High Court Judge) and Prem Narain (Member) passed an order and permitted to file joint consumer complaint u/s 12 (1) (c) of CPA 1986. The top consumer court held that there is a commonality in the grievance raised by the complainants and builder has failed to provide complete amenities in spite of seven years, hence the complaint is admitted as ‘class suit’.
The NCDRC has directed to publish public notice of the complaint under in local newspapers to facilitate other home buyers to join the complaint.
The NCDRC further issued notices to builder M/s Reward Real Estate Co. Ltd and M/s KSL Industries Ltd in a joint consumer complaint filed by 63 home buyers Pawan KumarJain and others seeking refund of sale consideration with interest alleging deficiency in service and unfair trade practice. The home buyers approached the consumer court against the builder, who has failed to complete the project and give sale-deed to consumers in spite of receiving complete sale consideration. The petitioners contended that the builder has cheated them and failed to give the promised facilities and amenities even till today.
The complainants stated that they purchased 3-BHK flats admeasuring 1500square feet in a housing project named “Empres city” situated near Gandhisagar Nagpur inclusive of all the amenities, flower beds, parking slots, podium garden, club facility, gymnasium, security in pursuance of massive advertisements. The builder collected around Rs 200 crore from 300 buyers but has failed to complete the scheme and deliver the possession even after six years.
The petitioners further stated that the builder has also failed to give promised amenities like gymnasium, sewage treatment plant, swimming pool, health club, yoga room, spa room, banquet hall, CCTV etc.
Counsel for the consumers Tushar Mandlekar argued that the builder has indulged in unfair trade practice and deficiency in service and hence all consumers must be compensated.The builder has also failed to give water connection to the buyers who are forced to buy water from open market. The petitioners have sought refund of their money along with interest of 16 per cent per annum from the date of each payment. The claim of each complainant is more than Rs one crore.
Adv Mandlekar was assisted by Adv Rohan Malviya.
