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  • Sameer Wankhede seeks special security from Mumbai Police

    Sameer Wankhede seeks special security from Mumbai Police

    Mumbai (IANS) | Ahead of a hearing in the Bombay High Court, former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), IRS officer Sameer Wankhede on Monday said he would seek special protection from the Mumbai Police as there was a threat to his life. Wankhede, currently embroiled in an alleged extortion case related to the sensational raid on the Cordelia cruise ship in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan was among those arrested, in a brief interaction with private Marathi TV channels Said.

    He said that he has been receiving various threats, including on social media, and will soon meet the Mumbai police commissioner with a request to this effect.

    Wankhede said that he has been raising the issue of exposure several times in the past, after the CBI filed an FIR against him.

    As per the High Court’s directions last Friday, the IRS officer was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for two days, for about five hours a day.

    In the previous hearing, the Bombay High Court had granted relief from any coercive action till May 22 to Wankhede, a 2008 batch IRS officer, whose role has come under the radar of the CBI during the raid on the Cordelia cruise ship on October 2, 2021.

    Nawab Malik, a former minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, and Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the cruise raid (who died last year) made several allegations of corruption against Wankhede and the raiding team. Were.

    However, Wankhede has denied all the allegations leveled against him and expressed full faith in the judiciary, the central government and the CBI to bring him justice.

    Subsequently, Wankhede was cleared of the cruise raid case and an internal inquiry was subsequently conducted regarding the allegations against him, even as the NCB suspended Aryan Khan in May 2022 for ‘lack of evidence against him’. Clean chit was given.

    Besides Wankhede, the CBI has booked two other NCB officers, Vishwa Vijay Singh and Ashish Ranjan, and witnesses in the ship case, KP Gosavi and Sanvil D’Souza.

    –IANS

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    Mumbai (IANS) | In a humane touch, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday termed cruelty and hatred towards stray dogs as unacceptable and cautioned that such cruelty would be against the constitutional ethos and statutory provisions. Justice Girish Kulkarni and Justice R.N. Ladda was hearing a petition filed by a dog-lover of the Mumbai Co-operative Housing Society, alleging cruelty to 18 stray dogs as its management committee was unwilling to provide designated feeding space to feed them and used bouncers. Was threatened

    The bench referred to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Animal Birth Control Rules and said that it would be the duty of all society members to abide by them and prevent any kind of torture or cruelty to animals or people willing to take care of them. Avoid It also directed the society management to inform it about the designated (eating) place as well as other welfare measures for the dogs by April 6, when the matter will come up for hearing again.

    The directions came in a petition filed through advocate Nishad Navgi by animal lover Paromita Purthan, a resident of RNA Royale Park CHS in Kandivali West, where she was feeding 18 stray dogs. Purathan informed the court about the management committee’s resolution dated November 13, 2022, allowing dogs to be fed at a designated place, but the society had not allotted feeding space in the sprawling premises.

    Cautioning the society and all its members, the bench said: Hating stray dogs and/or treating them cruelly can never be an acceptable attitude of individuals in a civilized society, acts of cruelty to such animals violate the constitutional ethos. And would be against the statutory provisions.

    It asked the society’s advocate Vibha Mishra to inform the court of the specified venue and welfare measures to help these animals and further their cause so that they are taken care of and their rights are protected in the spirit of the laws. can be preserved. The petitioner had pointed out how he was not being allowed to feed the dogs, provide water to them, was not being given a designated feeding spot within the society premises spread over a vast area, and was not allowed to feed the dogs at the society gates. where they were at risk of accidents and possible death.

    Noting that these dogs have a territorial connection with the Society, Justice Kulkarni and Justice Ladda also cited examples of lawyers or judges who take care of several stray dogs and cats in the High Court premises, and former judges who are stray dogs. How did you take biscuits with you for

    The judges said that animals are also living beings and are a part of our society and we have to take care of them, while taking a jibe at how non-cooperation happens in a cooperative society. The court directed the society and the petitioner to resolve the issues amicably and listed the matter for further hearing on April 6, as long as Purthan can continue to feed stray dogs in the society’s parking area.

    –IANS

  • Bombay High Court reprimands Rakhi Sawant, asks her to remove obscene video

    Bombay High Court reprimands Rakhi Sawant, asks her to remove obscene video

    Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has pulled up model-actor Rakhi Sawant and asked the Mumbai Police to take necessary steps to remove the obscene video made public by the actor of a fellow actor in a press conference.
    Justice Anuja Prabhudesai questioned Sawant’s counsel as to why the actor did this. He said, ‘Why are you indulging in things like showing such videos? Why should this be done for another woman? Certain ethical standards have to be maintained,” said Justice Prabhudesai.

    HC directs Mumbai Police to delete video
    The judge has also asked the Mumbai Police to inform by March 28 whether such videos are available on any website. Also, they will also have to inform about the steps to be taken to remove these videos.
    The High Court is hearing the anticipatory bail plea filed by Sawant after it was rejected by the sessions court. An FIR was registered against Sawant last October after he called a press conference and allegedly showed a pornographic video of a fellow actor and made defamatory statements.

    Seeking relief, her lawyer said that section 67A imposed on the actress is non-bailable. This section deals with the offense of broadcasting obscene video.
    Justice Prabhudesai questioned whether section 67A would be applicable as the actor denied airing any obscene video. According to the FIR, Sawant showed the video to media persons. Also, the punishment for a conviction for this is only five years.

    Also, the FIR does not say that the media aired all this. Also, the FIR states that the video is already available online.
    The victim’s lawyer said that the video shown by Sawant was a private video which is not available online. He defamed the victim and showed the video, which is now going viral.
    The court then asked the police to check whether the video had been deleted. If it is displayed then it should be removed.
    The High Court has fixed the date of March 28 for the hearing of the case.