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...
Traffic Control Branch and Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Friday conducted a meeting of traffic advisory committee at Swagat lawns. Stakeholders including members of transport and autorikshaw organisations, NGOs working for creating awareness, vigilant citizens and students attended the meeting and submitted their views to streamline traffic on city roads.
Issues like proper stoppage for Star buses, private buses, autorikshaws were discussed and many citizens appealed the authorities to provide designated places for stoppage. Harishchandra Pawar, office-bearer of Nagpur Zilla Auto Chalak Malak Sanghatana said, autorikshaw drivers are ready to operate with meter tariff and authorities should take steps in this regard. He also threatened to taken out morcha against operation of Ola and Uber within city limits.
| DCP (Traffic) Smartna Patil addressing the stakeholders while Deputy RTO Ravindra Bhuyar, Assistant RTO Rupkumar Belsare, Dr Anil Laddhad and others look on. |
Another Autorikshaw organisation representative said that more than 100 authorized Autorikshaw stands are required in the city and lamented that NIT and NMC are not paying attention towards it.
Representative of transport organisatons said, they need truck terminus at major entry points of city so that they can unload the goods there and further carry forward them in city using mini trucks. They also demanded facilities at truck parking plaza available at North Nagpur. A young resident of Manish Nagar demanded deployment of traffic cops at Manish Nagar railway crossing gate to streamline the traffic movement.
After hearing grievances, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Smartna Patil assured that necessary action would be taken in stipulated time period. DCP Patil will conduct a special meeting with transport organisation to solve their grievances. “Grievances of the transporters need to be discussed with NMC and NIT authorities,” said Patil. She asked Autorikshaw drivers to operate the vehicles with meter so that citizens would not suffer. Deputy RTO Ravindra Bhuyar asked the statkeholders that public participation is needed for any successful initiative. “The RTO will take necessary action on suggestions,” assured Bhuyar. Assistant RTO Rupkumar Belsare, Dr Anil Laddhad and Ravindra Kaskhedikar of Janakrosh were also present.
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