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Activist Gautam Navlakha walks out of prison, to stay under house arrest for one month
Gautam Navlakha, an accused in Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, was released from prison on Saturday evening and taken to a building in Navi Mumbai where he will be living under house arrest for a month.
His release from Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai after more than two years came nine days after the Supreme Court earlier this month granted his plea seeking house arrest on medical grounds.
Navlakha, 70, walked out prison around 6 pm. A police team took him to a building in Belapur-Agroli area of Navi Mumbai where he would be staying.
Earlier in the day, judge Rajesh Katariya of the special court for National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases here issued his `release memo'.
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Uddhav must dump Cong over Rahul's remarks against Savarkar, says Union minister Danve
Union minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Raosaheb Danve on Saturday said Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray must break his party's alliance with the Congress over Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter VD savarkar.
Rahul Gandhi, whose Bharat Jodo Yatra is currently passing through Maharashtra, on Thursday held a press conference at Wadegaon in Akola district, where he claimed Savarkar helped the British rulers and wrote a mercy petition to them out of fear, thereby betraying Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and other leaders of the freedom struggle.
Neither Savarkar nor Nehru should be targeted: Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said V D Savarkar, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru or any other freedom fighter should not be maligned as they are not alive to defend themselves.
There is no need to counter derogatory comments against Savarkar by targeting Nehru or any other historical personality, he added.
Raut was speaking to reporters here a day after making the stand of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena clear that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi need not have made his controversial comments about Savarkar.
It could affect the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, he had said.
"Attempts to besmirch the reputations of both Pandit Nehru and Savarkar must stop. Freedom fighters who made sacrifices for the country's independence do not belong to any ideology or political party," the Rajya Sabha member said on Saturday.
Mumbai court issues release memo for activist Gautam Navlakha's house arrest
Gautam Navlakha, an accused in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, is likely to walk out of the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai on Saturday, as a special court here issued a release memo to facilitate his month-long house arrest.
The special court hearing cases related to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) issued the release memo around 2.15 pm on Saturday.
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court had rejected the NIA's application and ordered that Navlakha be placed under house arrest "without fail" within 24 hours.
The investigating agency on Saturday submitted to the special court here the compliance report about completing the release formalities of the activist, after which the court issued the release memo, which will then be mailed to the jail authorities and the Navi Mumbai police commissioner.
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Stone with Devanagari, Farsi inscriptions found in well in Latur
A stone structure with inscriptions in Devanagari and Farsi has been found in a well in Sugao in Chakur tehsil in Maharashtra's Latur district, a historian who was part of the team that spotted it said on Saturday.
The Devanagari and Farsi words are in six lines in the middle of the Chandrashila sculpture, and provides information of Sugao and Wadval villages, historian Krishna Gudade said.
"It was found in a well. It may of the 17th-18th century. At the time, Sugao village was an administrative division under Wadval with Muslim rule," he said.
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Body of businessman from Pune found in abandoned car along the Mumbai-Goa Highway
The body of a businessman from Pune was found in an abandoned car in Tara village in Panvel along the Mumbai-Goa highway on Friday evening. The body was noticed inside the car by locals, and they informed the police. The car had been parked there since Thursday, and it was only on Friday evening that locals noticed a body inside, according to police.
Property deals in city under scanner, Financial Intelligence Unit- India to survey all transactions
Stepping up its drive against money laundering and terror financing, the Union Finance Ministry has asked Maharashtra’s Inspector General of Registrations (IGR) to report all sales and purchases of immovable property valued at Rs 50 lakh and above registered every quarter within the 15th of the succeeding month.
Another measles death in city
Of the nine suspected measles death reported in Maharashtra, eight have occurred in Mumbai and one in Bhiwandi. The number of confirmed cases have now risen to 176. A 10-month-old girl from Govandi succumbed on Nov 3 but the BMC discovered the death only on Nov 18. The child died while being transferred to another hospital for treatment.
The central railway has decided to shut the operation of all trains from CSMT at 11 pm on Saturday. Owing to this, local commuters have been requested to wind up work little early. A Mega block of 27 hours on 19th and 20th November starting from 11pm on Saturday between CSMT- Byculla/ Vadala will be operated by the central railway for the dismantling of Carnac bridge which was declared unsafe and is already shut for traffic movement.
