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Shocker : Push to reopen Dabo Club after Christmas Night double murder

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Dabo club Nagpur Efforts to reopen the controversial Dabo Club, which was shut down for 45 days following the murder of two young men, have triggered strong anger and fear among the families of the victims. The incident took place in the early hours of December 26 last year during a Christmas party at Dabo Club. Pranav Ranavare (27) was allegedly killed after a minor dispute. His friend, Gaurav Karda (34), was badly injured in the same incident and later died during treatment.  The Sonegaon police arrested six accused - Soumya Deshmukh, Mehul alias Monu Rahate, Rajiv Chawla, Abhay Jhamtani, Gappu Sharma and Tushar Nankani. All the accused are currently lodged in jail. The club is owned by Directors Devyani Vijay Wadettiwar, Karan Vikram Thakkar and Mohd Hamza Rayeen. It may be mentioned here that Dabo Club has a long history of complaints related to harassment and assaults. Police sources said repeated warnings were ignored by the management. During the investigation, it was found...
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STBs show the real picture: MSOs evaded Rs 18 cr duty each year

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By Dheeraj Fartode

EACH Set Top Box installed in city’s household has started unearthing the fraud played on the State Government by Multi Service Operators (MSO). In A bid to evade entertainment duty the MSOs misguided the district administration on the number of cable connections which cost the state exchequer a whopping loss of over Rs 18 crore as Entertainment Duty (ED) per year.
After the STBs were made compulsory from April 1 the real picture has started coming to fore. The MSOs had put their cable connection strength to 88,637 in Nagpur city that has 5.32 households. However, data collected from Nagpur Divisional Commissionerate states that 4.34 lakh STBs have been installed in the Second Capital till date. The number has exposed the false claims of the MSOs and the massive evasion of Entertainment Duty.
The government applies Rs 45 as Entertainment Duty for each cable connection. Before the STBs were made compulsory the MSOs in the city had shown their connections as 88,637 thus paying only Rs 4.78 crore as ED every year.
Sources said same practice was on in the entire State thus causing a huge loss of hundreds of crore every year to the government coffers.
The State Government is now mulling issuing notices for recovery of ED to all cable operators in Maharashtra.
“We have noticed that MSOs evaded huge amount of ED every year. The administration will serve notice to all MSOs for back recovery of ED with interest,” Deputy Commissioner S G Gautam said.
Divisional Inspector (ED) Udaykumar Bhaisare said the administration had done a survey of cable connections in the city and found a big mismatch in the numbers claimed by the cable operators.
“However, the cable operators denied our claim and only 14,000 cable connections were increased in February 2013. The digitalisation process was aimed at plugging such leaks in the system. With STBs in place, the tax collection is also expected to rise,” Bhaisare said.
STBs were installed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik and Thane cities under the process of digitalisation from April 1.

STBs installed in city

UCN 2.60 lakh
IN-BCN 1.31 lakh
GTPL 0.43 lakh
Total 4.34 lakh

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