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...
- Kunal Raut is Gen Secy of State Youth Congress
By Dheeraj Fartode
FIVE youths from city were arrested by Hoshangabad police for assaulting two forest officials and a toll booth employee. Those arrested include Kunal Raut, son of Employment Guarantee Scheme Minister of Maharashtra, Dr Nitin Raut.
According to police, on Wednesday, five youths - Kunal Nitin Raut (23), Sanmeet Surjeet Singh Joli (22), Antar Preet Narendra Singh Gotra (23), Swapneel Neelendra Telang (23), and Shoyab Rauf Fariq (23) - travelling in a jeep, assaulted a toll tax check post staffer at Matkuli near Pipariya. They also attacked two forest officials who tried to intervene in the matter.
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“Accused assaulted and injured Bablu Rajawat, a toll tax employee and also attacked two forest officials who were engaged in some work near the check post,” said Pipariya police.
The accused were arrested and offence under Sections 294, 323, 506, 353, 337 of Indian Penal Code has been registered at Pipariya police station.
According to sources, when stopped at the toll booth, Kunal claimed to be son of Maharashtra Minister and refused to pay toll tax. When Bablu Rajawat urged Kunal to pay toll tax, all the occupants in the jeep got furious and had altercation with Bablu. Angry over the repeated demand of the tax, they bashed up Bablu. On hearing heated argument, two forest employees, who were working nearby, rushed to the spot. They too were attacked by the youths.
Later, Kunal and others headed towards Pachmarhi. When they were returning back to Nagpur, cops deployed at the toll booth arrested them for assaulting Government employees on duty and seized their jeep.
IG Hoshangabad Range, Ajay Sharma informed ‘The Hitavada’ that stern action will be taken against the youths including Kunal, General Secretary of Maharashtra Youth Congress.
Kunal had landed in troubled waters earlier also. He was in controversies for thrashing an engineering student on parking issue in Nagpur.

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