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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| Mahatma Gandhi eyeglasses stolen from Sevagram ashram |
The Mahatma’s glasses went missing from the Sevagram Ashram in November 2010 and the theft came to light on June 14, 2011. The probe was handed over to the State CID. Since then the department is groping in dark with no results.
Additional Superintendent of Police (CID) Ratan Singh Yadav has maintained that the CID was still probing the case. Till date the department has managed to seize a laptop from a woman inmate of the Ashram but yet to study the contents on the hard disk.
The woman got the laptop as a gift from someone. During investigation cops found that an important file had been deleted. They sent hard disk of the laptop for Chemical Analysis (CA) to recover the file. “The chemical analysis had recovered the file and forwarded it to CID Nagpur. However, the file sent was corrupt. We have again called for the correct file from CA,” Yadav said.
Speculations are rife that the historic piece of Mahatma Gandhi was sold in grey market for around Rs 4 to 5 crore. The CID officers promptly denied the reports but failed to elaborate on the angles they were probing apart from the seized laptop.
Sources said that CID was doing only paper work as they did not have any concrete evidence. The then Superintendent of Police Yashasvi Yadav, too, had investigated the case and made many visits to Wardha. But despite interrogating many people from the Ashram they failed to get any clue.
Incidentally, September 23 was the 80th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s arrival to Sevagram Ashram. He stayed here from 1933 and 1946. To mark the occasion the National Executive meeting of the All India Youth Congress also got under way on Monday, in the Ashram premises.

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