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...
By Dheeraj Fartode
As the clock ticked away, Suleiman Memon, elder brother of Yakub Memon and latter's cousin, Usman, spent restless night in their hotel room. Lodged at Hotel Dwarka in busy Sitabuldi locality, both brothers provided solace to one another, providing. Both were glued to TV, as they held on to glimmer of hope that Yakub's hanging slated for early Thursday morning would get postponed. Both hardly slept even as city police kept a hawk's eye on the two, said hotel employees who served the guests.
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| Memon brothers Suleman and Usman walking towards car on Thursday morning. |
Outside a pose of policemen and horde of newspersons, photographers, cameramen, too stayed awake wanting to have comment from either of Memon's brothers. Early morning when Usman came down for a chore, he was flocked by waiting newspersons, particularly aggressive channel reporters who thrust mike and tired to get his say on the matter. A panicked Usman quickly retraced his steps and went back and holed-up in his room.
The two brothers were also in constant touch with Delhi based lawyers, as latter kept them abreast of fast paced developments. The two surfed through news channel trying to get latest news on the developments in Supreme Court, which was opened past midnight to hear Yakub's lawyers.
At around 2 am, a constable arrived at the hotel and handed over a sealed packet from Nagpur Central Jail authorities. The packet had a letter from Jail Superintendent informing details of hanging of Yakub slated for later in the morning.
The brothers finally lost hope around 5 am on Thursday when TV channels started flashing the news of the dismissal of last ditch attempt of Yakub's lawyers to get 14-day reprieve for the Bombay blasts convict. Emotions got better of the two brothers and their eyes swelled-up, said Hotel sources. Sources also informed that the brothers were also asked by jail authorities to reach at Central Prison by 8.30 am. “There was a communication between jail authority and Memon brothers,” said a police official in know of the things.
The brothers left Hotel Dwarka at around 8.15 am and impatient media jostled to click pictures and one possible comment form either one of them. Officers of Sitabuldi Police managed to clear the path for Memon brothers who later travelleed in a Maruti Versa car. The car directly drove to Central Jail where jail authorities handed over the body to the brothers after completing legal formalities.
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